Fortress
Fort Mosta
🇲🇹 Malta · 19th century
Fort Mosta (formerly written as Fort Musta, Maltese: Il-Fortizza tal-Mosta) is a polygonal fort in Mosta, Malta. It was built between 1878 and the 1880s by the British as part of the Victoria Lines. It is still in use today by the Armed Forces of Malta as an ammunition depot.
Text adapted from “Fort Mosta” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Mosta ranks #2,915 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #16 of the 16 mapped in Malta. Founded 1878, it is older than 7% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 336 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Malta compares in the castle statistics.
View on the interactive castle map →More castles in Malta
- Grandmaster's Palace Malta · 17th century
- Fort Saint Elmo Malta · 16th century
- Fort St Angelo Malta · 17th century
- Cittadella, Gozo Malta · 15th century
More fortresses
- Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam Suriname
- Mirabella Fortress Croatia · 13th century
- Fortress Kostajnica Croatia
- Kot Diji Fort Pakistan