swap_horiz Fort Canning Alternatives

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Burg Hohenzollern

Burg Hohenzollern stands atop Mount Jagdhause near Hechingen, Swabia, Germany. This 19th-century fortress was rebuilt as...

Germany 19TH Century Hilltop Swabia

8.8 Great

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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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Amber Fort

The Amber Fort sits atop a hill overlooking Jaipur, Rajasthan. This Rajput fortress was primarily built during the reign...

India Rajput Hilltop Rajasthan

8.7 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

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Citadel of Cairo

The Citadel of Cairo is a medieval Islamic fortification on the Mokattam hills in Egypt, founded by Saladin in 1176 and...

Medieval Egypt Hilltop Ayyubid

8.5 Great

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Spišský Hrad

One of the largest castle complexes in Central Europe, located in eastern Slovakia and dating to the 12th century, desig...

Medieval 12TH Century Slovakia Ruins

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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Marksburg Castle

Marksburg Castle is a medieval hilltop fortress in Braubach, Germany, distinguished as the only unaltered and never-dest...

Germany Medieval 12TH Century Rhine

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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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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Festung Ehrenbreitstein

Festung Ehrenbreitstein is a massive hilltop garrison fortress in Koblenz, Germany, rebuilt by the Prussian military bet...

Germany 19TH Century Hilltop Prussian

8.0 Great

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Fortress Hohenschwangau

Fortress Hohenschwangau is a 19th-century neo-Gothic palace in Bavaria, Germany, constructed between 1832 and 1836 by Ki...

Germany 19TH Century Medieval Hilltop

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 Cornwallis

Star-shaped British fort in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, established by the East India Company in 1786 when Francis Li...

18TH Century British Colonial Malaysia

7.3 Good

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Fort St. George

First English fortress built in India, established in 1644 in Madras (Chennai), which became the nucleus around which th...

India British Colonial 17TH Century

7.2 Good

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Fort Frederica

British colonial fortification on St. Simons Island, Georgia, established by James Oglethorpe in 1736 to defend the new...

18TH Century USA British Colonial

6.8 Fair

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Fort Marlborough

British fort built between 1713 and 1719 in Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia, considered the largest British fort constructe...

18TH Century British Indonesia Colonial

6.5 Fair

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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

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Fort Bullen

British fort established in 1826 at the mouth of the Gambia River primarily to intercept slave traders, later serving as...

19TH Century Coastal British Colonial

6.0 Fair