swap_horiz Bodrum Castle Alternatives

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Galle Fort

The Galle Fort is a remarkably preserved coastal fortress located in Sri Lanka. Constructed by the Dutch East India Comp...

Coastal Dutch Colonial 17TH Century

8.8 Great

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Lovrijenac Fortress

Detached fort on a 37-meter cliff outside Dubrovnik's city walls, Croatia, built in the 11th century to deny any power a...

Coastal Croatia Dubrovnik Cliff

8.5 Great

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Castillo San Felipe

Spanish colonial fortress sharing a name with several Caribbean and South American strongholds, each built from the 16th...

Coastal Colonial Colombia 16TH Century

8.5 Great

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Elmina Castle

Portuguese-built castle in Ghana (1482), the oldest surviving European structure in sub-Saharan Africa and a key depot i...

Colonial Portuguese Ghana 15TH Century

8.5 Great

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Cape Coast Castle

British-administered castle on the Ghanaian coast, rebuilt in the 17th century as one of West Africa's largest slave-hol...

Coastal Colonial 17TH Century Ghana

8.5 Great

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Diyarbakır Fortress

Diyarbakır Fortress is one of the largest and best-preserved basalt city walls in the world, enclosing the city of Diyar...

Turkey Ancient Walled City Basalt

8.3 Great

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Aragonese Castle of Ischia

Island fortress off Ischia, Italy, with ancient roots rebuilt by Alfonso V of Aragon in 1441 and connected to the island...

Italy Coastal Island Naples

8.3 Great

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Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry is a star-shaped harbor defense fort in Baltimore, Maryland, whose successful resistance to a British naval...

USA Coastal Maryland Star Fort

8.2 Great

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Jiayuguan Fort

The westernmost major pass-fortress of the Ming-dynasty Great Wall, built in 1372 in Gansu Province and traditionally ca...

China Great Wall 15TH Century Ming

8.2 Great

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Fort Jefferson

Massive unfinished US coastal fortification begun in 1847 on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, one of the largest...

USA 19TH Century Coastal Florida

8.2 Great

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Alcazaba of Málaga

The Alcazaba of Málaga is a well-preserved 11th-century Moorish hilltop fortress in Spain, built by the Hammudid dynasty...

Spain Coastal Moorish Hilltop

8.2 Great

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Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter is a sea fort in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, where Confederate forces fired the opening shots of the...

USA 19TH Century Coastal South Carolina

8.0 Great

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Fort Qaitbay

Fort Qaitbay is a 15th-century defensive citadel on the Mediterranean coast of Alexandria, Egypt, built by Sultan Qaitba...

Coastal Egypt 15TH Century Alexandria

8.0 Great

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Citadel of Corfu

A Venetian-built fortification on the eastern promontory of Corfu town, Greece, developed from the 15th century onward t...

Coastal Island Greece 16TH Century

8.0 Great

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Fort Point

US Army fort completed in 1861 at the base of the Golden Gate in San Francisco, the only complete third-system masonry f...

USA California Coastal Civil War

8.0 Great

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Alcazaba of Almería

The Alcazaba of Almería is a massive Moorish fortification in southern Spain constructed in 955 by Abd-ar-Rahman III to...

Spain Coastal Moorish 10TH Century

8.0 Great

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Fortaleza de Sagres

Portuguese fortress at Cape Sagres in the Algarve, traditionally associated with Henry the Navigator's 15th-century prom...

Coastal Portugal 15TH Century Cape

7.8 Good

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Caesarea Crusader Fortress

A Crusader fortification at ancient Caesarea on Israel's Mediterranean coast, significantly strengthened by King Louis I...

Israel Coastal 13TH Century Crusader

7.5 Good

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Kavala Fortress

Byzantine and Ottoman fortress on a rocky peninsula in Kavala, Greece, dominating a harbor city built on the site of anc...

Coastal Greece 15TH Century Hilltop

7.2 Good

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Belvoir Fortress

Belvoir Fortress is a well-preserved Crusader concentric castle in northern Israel, built by the Knights Hospitaller in...

Israel 12TH Century Hilltop Crusader

7.0 Good