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Fort of Saint Francis

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Fort of Saint Francis in Brazil
Photo: Karlavidal · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Fort of Saint Francis ranks #8,981 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #72 of the 78 mapped in Brazil. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Brazil compares in the castle statistics.

The Fort of Saint Francis of Olinda, also known as Forte Montenegro and Fortim do Queijo, is located on São Francisco beach, in Olinda, on the coast of the present-day state of Pernambuco, in Brazil.

Machine-translated from “Fortim de São Francisco de Olinda” on the Portuguese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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