Fortress
Fort Leonardo
🇲🇹 Malta · 19th century
Fort Leonardo (Maltese: Il-Fortizza San Leonardu), also known as Fort San Leonardo or Fort San Anard, is a polygonal fort in Żabbar, Malta. It was built between 1872 and 1878 by the British between the villages of San Leonardo and Żonqor above the shore east of the Grand Harbour.
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Fort Leonardo ranks #4,115 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #17 of the 17 mapped in Malta. Founded 1872, it is older than 7% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 407 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Malta compares in the castle statistics.
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