Fortaleza
Suvarnadurg Fort
🇮🇳 India
Suvarnadurg (translation: Golden Fort, also spelt Severndroog in English, a spelling sometimes also used for Savandurga) is a fort that is located on a small island in the Arabian Sea, near Harnai in Konkan, in the Indian state of Maharashtra on the west coast of India between Mumbai and Goa.
The literal meaning of Suvanadurga in the Marathi language is "Golden Fort" as it was considered as the pride or the "feather in the golden cap of Marathas". Built by Adilshah Navy for defence purposes, the fort also had a shipbuilding facility. The basic objective of establishing the fort was to counter enemy attacks, mainly by the colonialists of Europe and also by the local chieftains.
In the past, the land fort and the sea fort were connected by a tunnel, but this is now defunct. The present approach to the sea fort is only by boats from the Harnai port on the headland. It is a protected monument.
Texto adaptado de «Suvarnadurg» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Suvarnadurg Fort ranks #1657 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #81 of the 156 mapped in India. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.
Ver en el mapa interactivo de castillos →Más castillos en la India
- Salimgarh Fort India · siglo XVI
- Chandragiri Fort India · siglo XVII
- Sikandra Bagh India · siglo II
- Castella de Aguada India · siglo XVII
Más fortalezas
- Fort Vredenburgh Ghana · siglo XVII
- Fort Orange (Ghana) Ghana · siglo XVII
- Umarkot Fort Pakistán
- Fuerte Tigné Malta · siglo XVIII