Benin · 17th century
The Royal Palace, also known as King Toffa's Palace and more recently Musée Honmé, is a former royal residence and today museum in Porto-Novo, Benin.
It contains an example of an Alounloun and most displays are related to the King Toffa period.
The palace and the surrounding district was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on October 31, 1996, in the Cultural category.
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Royal Palace, Porto-Novo ranks #4,725 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #3 of the 3 mapped in Benin. Founded c. 1601, it is older than 31% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 721 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. See how Benin compares in the castle statistics.
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