swap_horiz Elmina 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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Castillo de San Marcos

Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States, built by Spain in St. Augustine, Flo...

Spanish USA Florida Colonial

8.6 Great

3

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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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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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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Bodrum Castle

Bodrum Castle is a 15th-century Hospitaller fortress on the Aegean coast of Turkey, begun in 1406 by the Knights of St....

Turkey Coastal 15TH Century Crusader

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 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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Brimstone Hill Fortress

UNESCO World Heritage Site on St. Kitts, a major British colonial fortification developed from the late 17th century and...

18TH Century British Colonial Hilltop

8.0 Great

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Intramuros

Walled city in Manila, Philippines, founded by Spanish colonizers in 1571 as the administrative and ecclesiastical cente...

Spanish Colonial Philippines Walled City

8.0 Great

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Gorée Island Fortress

Fortified island off Dakar, Senegal, occupied successively by Portuguese, Dutch, French, and British powers, now a UNESC...

Colonial Island 17TH Century Senegal

8.0 Great

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Fort Ticonderoga

Fort Ticonderoga is an 18th-century star fort at the southern tip of Lake Champlain, New York, originally built by Franc...

USA New York Colonial Revolutionary

7.8 Good

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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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Fort Santiago

16th-century Spanish citadel within Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, built around 1571 and notable as the final prison o...

Spanish Colonial Philippines 16TH Century

7.8 Good

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Fort de Salses

Fort de Salses is a late 15th-century Spanish fortress in southern France, built between 1497 and 1504 near Perpignan as...

Spanish France Transitional 15TH Century

7.5 Good

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Fort Mackinac

British fort on Mackinac Island, Michigan, constructed around 1780–1781 during the Revolutionary War and transferred to...

18TH Century USA Colonial Island

7.5 Good

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Real Felipe Fortress

Spanish colonial fortress in Callao, Peru, constructed in the 18th century as the primary maritime defense of Lima and o...

18TH Century Coastal Colonial Peru

7.5 Good

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A Famosa

Portuguese fortress built in Malacca, Malaysia, in 1511, one of the oldest surviving European structures in Southeast As...

Colonial Malaysia 16TH Century Portuguese

7.5 Good

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James Fort

British fortification built in 1673 in Accra, Ghana, that functioned as a slave-trading post and was subsequently used a...

British Colonial Island 17TH Century

7.5 Good

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Fort Prempeh

British colonial fort in Kumasi, Ghana, named after the exiled Asante king Prempeh I and constructed following Britain's...

19TH Century British Colonial Ghana

6.5 Fair