Fortaleza
Forte de São José
🇨🇻 Cabo Verde · siglo XIX
Forte de São José (Portuguese for the Fort of Saint Joseph) is a fort located in the city of Porto Inglês in the southern part of Maio Island, Cape Verde. It was built by the Portuguese around 1743, in order to protect the town of Porto Inglês from pirate attacks. Today, the fort is one of the tourist attractions of the town.
Texto adaptado de «Forte de São José (Maio)» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Forte de São José ranks #4353 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #2 of the 2 mapped in Cabo Verde. Fundado en 1887, más antiguo que el 5% de los monumentos datados del atlas — one of 407 atlas entries founded in the siglo XIX. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.
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