Fortress
Fort of Santiago
🇧🇷 Brazil
The Fort of Santiago was a former fortification located at the São Tiago quay (later Calabouço), at the foot of the Morro do Descanso (later called Morro do Castelo), between the beaches of Piaçaba and Santa Luzia (today vanished), in what is now the historic centre of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Machine-translated from “Fuerte de São Tiago da Misericórdia” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort of Santiago ranks #8,010 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #69 of the 80 mapped in Brazil. 17 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Rio de Janeiro, 4 km away. See how Brazil compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Fort of Santiago?
Fort of Santiago stands in Brazil, at -22.90591°, -43.16952°.
How famous is Fort of Santiago?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #8,010 of 8,134 worldwide, and #69 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 Santiago?
Tiradentes Palace, about 1 km away.
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