Brazil
Fort of Santiago ranks #8,919 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #67 of the 78 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.
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.
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