Fortress
Forte da Vera Cruz de Itapema
🇧🇷 Brazil
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.
Forte da Vera Cruz de Itapema ranks #7,966 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #67 of the 80 mapped in Brazil. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Brazil compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Forte da Vera Cruz de Itapema?
Forte da Vera Cruz de Itapema stands in Brazil, at -23.93694°, -46.30872°.
How famous is Forte da Vera Cruz de Itapema?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,966 of 8,134 worldwide, and #67 in Brazil. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Forte da Vera Cruz de Itapema?
Fortress of Santo Amaro da Barra Grande, about 6 km away.
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