Castle
Fortim de Caetano Madeira
🇧🇷 Brazil
The Fortim de Caetano Madeira stood in the city and state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.
It occupied a commanding position at the top of the morro das Palmeiras, in the parish of Inhaúma, half a kilometre from the road or highway of Engenho Novo on one side, and on the other from the hill of Jacaré and the Estrada Real de Santa Cruz (today avenida Dom Hélder Câmara), one of the main lines of communication of colonial Rio de Janeiro.
Machine-translated from “Fortim de Caetano Madeira” on the Portuguese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fortim de Caetano Madeira ranks #8,107 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #78 of the 80 mapped in Brazil. 17 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Rio de Janeiro, 6 km away. See how Brazil compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Fortim de Caetano Madeira?
Fortim de Caetano Madeira stands in Brazil, at -22.8965°, -43.2596°.
How famous is Fortim de Caetano Madeira?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #8,107 of 8,134 worldwide, and #78 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 Fortim de Caetano Madeira?
Paço de São Cristóvão, about 4 km away.
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