Cranganore Fort

The Fortaleza da São Tomé, also known as Cranganore Fort or Kottapuram Fort, is situated in Kodungallur of Thrissur District in Kerala, India. It was of 18 feet in thickness and was made of laterite. The stone fort was built by the Portuguese in 1523 and was named after Thomas the Apostle. The fort was enlarged in 1565 and passed into the hands of the Dutch in 1663, who destroyed the fort.

Kottapuram Fort was an important part of the Nedumkotta fort built by Travancore under the leadership of Eustachius Benedictus de Lenoy to defend against Tipu Sultan.

Texto adaptado de «Fortaleza da São Tomé» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cranganore Fort ranks #3294 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #135 of the 156 mapped in India. Fundado en 1523, más antiguo que el 48% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 495 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XVI. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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