Fortress
Fort Orange (Dutch Brazil)
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The Fort of Santa Cruz de Itamaracá (Holy cross of Itamaracá), popularly known as Fort Orange, is located on Itamaracá Island on the north coast of the state of Pernambuco in Brazil.
In the context of the second Dutch invasions in Brazil, it was originally a small island (now lost) in front of the tip of the Southeast Itamaracá Island, where the bar dominated the southern channel of Santa Cruz.
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Fort Orange (Dutch Brazil) ranks #3,400 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #15 of the 62 mapped in Brazil. See how Brazil compares in the castle statistics.
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