Thailand · 18th century
Mahakan Fort ranks #6,349 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #13 of the 21 mapped in Thailand. Founded 1783, it is older than 13% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 685 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,166 times in the last 60 days, more than 55% of the atlas. 12 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Bangkok, 1 km away. See how Thailand compares in the castle statistics.
Mahakan Fort (in Thai, ป้อมมหากาฬ) is a late 18th-century military structure, one of the two surviving ones that protected the then walled city of Bangkok (Thailand). Since 2018 the building has been preserved in restored form and the area around it is a public garden.
Machine-translated from “Fuerte Mahakan” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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