swap_horiz Fortezza di Bard Alternatives

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Eltz Castle

Eltz Castle stands within Germany’s Mosel valley, a remarkably intact medieval fortress dating back to the 12th century....

Germany Medieval 12TH Century Valley

9.0 Excellent

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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

3

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 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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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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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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Rocca Scaligera

Medieval lakeside castle in Sirmione, Italy, built by the Scaligeri lords of Verona in the 13th–14th century, notable fo...

Italy 14TH Century Scaligeri Lake Garda

7.8 Good

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Oscarsborg Fortress

A Norwegian island fortress in the Oslofjord, built in 1845, renowned for sinking the German heavy cruiser Blücher durin...

19TH Century Coastal Norway Island

7.5 Good

9

Rocca di Gradara

Well-preserved 13th-century hilltop fortress in Gradara, Marche, Italy, traditionally linked to the story of Paolo and F...

Italy Medieval 14TH Century Marche

7.5 Good

10

Forte di Belvedere

Star-shaped fort overlooking Florence, Italy, commissioned by Grand Duke Ferdinando I de' Medici and completed in 1595 t...

Italy Florence 16TH Century Hilltop

7.5 Good

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Fort Pulaski

Civil War-era fort on Cockspur Island, Georgia, where Union forces first used rifled artillery in 1862 to breach its mas...

USA 19TH Century Coastal Civil War

7.5 Good

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Fort Laramie

Originally a fur-trading post established in 1834 in present-day Wyoming, it became a key US Army garrison and treaty si...

USA 19TH Century Wyoming Frontier

7.5 Good

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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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Fort Canning

Singapore hilltop fortification known as the site of the British Far East Command's operations room during the 1942 Japa...

19TH Century Singapore British Colonial

7.5 Good

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Fort Monroe

Largest stone fort ever built in the United States, constructed 1819–1834 at Old Point Comfort, Virginia, and garrisoned...

USA 19TH Century Coastal Virginia

7.3 Good

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Fort Vancouver

Hudson's Bay Company post established in 1824 on the Columbia River in present-day Washington State, the principal hub o...

USA 19TH Century Washington Frontier

7.2 Good

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Fort Snelling

First permanent US Army post in the upper Midwest, established in 1819 at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesot...

USA Confluence 19TH Century Frontier

7.0 Good

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Modlin Fortress

A large 19th-century polygonal fortress at the confluence of the Narew and Vistula rivers in Poland, begun by French eng...

Poland Confluence 19TH Century Napoleonic

6.8 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