Fortress
Fort Blauwkapel
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Fort Blauwkapel (also: Blaucapel) is a Dutch fort near Utrecht. The fort was built in 1818-1821 as part of the New Dutch Waterline and is one of the largest forts of the line. Blauwkapel is a protected townscape.
Machine-translated from “Fort Blauwkapel” on the Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Blauwkapel ranks #7,200 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #178 of the 200 mapped in Netherlands. 27 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Utrecht, 3 km away. See how Netherlands compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Fort Blauwkapel?
Fort Blauwkapel stands in the Netherlands, at 52.11593°, 5.13843°.
How famous is Fort Blauwkapel?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,200 of 7,738 worldwide, and #178 in the Netherlands. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Fort Blauwkapel?
Fort De Gagel, about 3 km away.
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