Fortress
Fort Beekenburg
Curaçao · 18th century
- Founded
- 1703
- Coordinates
- 12.07252°, -68.86196°
- Open data
- Wikidata Q5027351
Description
Fort Beekenburg, also known as the Castle, is a fort located east of Willemstad, in the bay of Curaçao, built to defend the Spanish Water.
Machine-translated from “Fort Beekenburg” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
In the rankings
Fort Beekenburg ranks #6,425 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #5 of the 6 mapped in Curaçao. Founded 1703, it is older than 21% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 685 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Willemstad, 9 km away. See how Curaçao compares in the castle statistics.
Castles nearby
- Fort Nassau (Curaçao)8 km · Curaçao
- Waterfort8 km · Curaçao
- Fort Amsterdam (Curaçao)9 km · Curaçao
- Riffort9 km · Curaçao
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