Fortress
Fort Gouraya
🇩🇿 Algeria
Fort Gouraya is a former 16th-century Spanish military work, situated in the commune of Béjaïa, Béjaïa Province, at the summit of a mountain known locally as Yemma Gouraya, which has an altitude of 672 m, in Kabylia.
Machine-translated from “Fort de Gouraya” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Gouraya ranks #7,431 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #19 of the 22 mapped in Algeria. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Bordj Bou Arreridj, 83 km away. See how Algeria compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Fort Gouraya?
Fort Gouraya stands in Algeria, at 36.7667°, 5.08333°.
How famous is Fort Gouraya?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,431 of 8,134 worldwide, and #19 in Algeria. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Fort Gouraya?
Casbah of Béjaïa, about 2 km away.
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