Fortress
Forte de Santa Maria
🇧🇷 Brazil · 17th century
Forte de Santa Maria (Portuguese: Fort of Saint Mary) is a fort located in Salvador, Bahia in Brazil. It is also known as the Fortim de Santa Maria (Portuguese: Small Fort of Saint Mary). It retains much of its original structure of the 17th century, including its broad, stone curtain walls. The fort is in the shape of a heptagon and is accessed via a narrow embankment. The fort was listed as a historic structure by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN) in 1938. It is closed to the public, is not maintained by federal or state institutions and is falling into a state of disrepair.
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Forte de Santa Maria ranks #5,076 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #44 of the 62 mapped in Brazil. Founded 1696, it is older than 26% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 350 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. See how Brazil compares in the castle statistics.
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