Fortaleza
Batticaloa Fort
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · siglo XVII
The Batticaloa Fort (Tamil: மட்டக்களப்புக் கோட்டை, romanized: Maṭṭakkaḷappuk Kōṭṭai; Sinhala: මඩකලපුව බලකොටුව, romanized: Madakalapuwa Balakotuwa) was built by the Portuguese in 1628 and was captured by the Dutch on 18 May 1638. From 1795, the fort was used by the British.
The fort has a structure of four bastions and is protected by the Batticaloa Lagoon on two sides and a canal on the other two sides. The fort is still in reasonable condition and currently houses several local administrative departments of the Sri Lanka government in new buildings, which are located within the old structure.
Texto adaptado de «Batticaloa fort» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Batticaloa Fort ranks #2312 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #5 of the 13 mapped in Sri Lanka. Fundado en 1628, más antiguo que el 32% de los monumentos datados del atlas — one of 399 atlas entries founded in the siglo XVII. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.
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