Fortress
Fort Balibo
🇹🇱 Timor-Leste · 17th century
Balibo Fort (Portuguese: Tranqueira de Balibó) is a 17th-century Portuguese fort in Balibo, East Timor. The rendered stone walls form roughly a pentagon. The fort was equipped with cannons, some of which can still be seen today.
Machine-translated from “Balibo (Festung)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Balibo ranks #7,561 of 8,764 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #2 of the 2 mapped in Timor-Leste. Founded c. 1650, it is older than 27% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 672 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. See how Timor-Leste compares in the castle statistics.
View on the interactive castle map →Frequently asked questions
Where is Fort Balibo?
Fort Balibo stands in Timor-Leste, at -8.96854°, 125.0425°.
When was Fort Balibo built?
The atlas dates its founding to c. 1650. Earlier structures may have stood on the site; this is the earliest documented founding year.
How famous is Fort Balibo?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,561 of 8,764 worldwide, and #2 in Timor-Leste. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Fort Balibo?
Palácio de Lahane, about 74 km away.
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