Brazil
Fortress of São João ranks #8,963 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #68 of the 78 mapped in Brazil. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Brazil compares in the castle statistics.
The Fortress of São João stood on the island of Santo Antônio (today the island of Vitória), in the narrows formed by the bay of Vitória, opposite the Penedo hill, on the coast of the present-day Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. On the remains of this fort the clubhouse of the Clube de Regatas Saldanha da Gama was erected.
Machine-translated from “Fuerte de São João (Espírito Santo)” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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