Brazil · 17th century
Fort Waerdenburgh ranks #8,972 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #70 of the 78 mapped in Brazil. Founded 1631, it is older than 28% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 710 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Brazil compares in the castle statistics.
Fort Waerdenburgh stood on a point of land at the confluence of the Beberibe river with the Capibaribe river, in the present-day city of Recife, on the coast of the state of Pernambuco, in Brazil.
Machine-translated from “Forte Waerdemburch” on the Portuguese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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