Fortress
Fort of Saint Francis
🇧🇷 Brazil
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.
Fort of Saint Francis ranks #8,071 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #74 of the 80 mapped in Brazil. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Brazil compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Fort of Saint Francis?
Fort of Saint Francis stands in Brazil, at -8.01528°, -34.84683°.
How famous is Fort of Saint Francis?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #8,071 of 8,134 worldwide, and #74 in Brazil. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Fort of Saint Francis?
Forte de São João Batista do Brum, about 5 km away.
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