Fortress
Fortaleza de São João
🇧🇷 Brazil
The Fortress of São João da Barra do Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Fortaleza de São João da Barra do Rio de Janeiro), commonly known as the Fortress of São João or São João Fort, is a 16th-century star fort in the present-day Urca neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, erected by Estácio de Sá to protect Guanabara Bay from French invasion.
Text adapted from “Fortress of São João (Rio de Janeiro)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fortaleza de São João ranks #3,365 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #13 of the 62 mapped in Brazil. See how Brazil compares in the castle statistics.
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