Brazil
Forte da Vera Cruz de Itapema ranks #8,879 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #65 of the 78 mapped in Brazil. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Brazil compares in the castle statistics.
The Forte da Vera Cruz de Itapema, also known as Forte da Vera Cruz, Forte da Santa Cruz or Forte de Itapema (from the Tupi-Guarani, "itapema" = "split stone"), is located on a point of land on the island of Santo Amaro, facing Santos, about one league inside the Barra Grande channel, in the present-day district of Vicente de Carvalho, municipality of Guarujá, on the coast of the state of São Paulo, in Brazil.
Machine-translated from “Forte da Vera Cruz de Itapema” on the Portuguese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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