Castle
Osu Castle
🇬🇭 Ghana · 17th century
- Country
- 🇬🇭 Ghana
- Type
- Castle
- Century
- 17th century
- Founded
- 1659
- Coordinates
- 5.54689°, -0.18353°
Coastal castle in Osu, Accra, Ghana, built by Denmark-Norway in the 1660s as a slave-trading fort; served as capital of the Danish Gold Coast and later as British colonial seat of government; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. Osu Castle stands at 5.54689°, -0.18353° in Ghana — one of 600 castles, fortresses and palaces charted in the Castlemap atlas.
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