Fortaleza de São Sebastião
Also known as Fortress of São Sebastião
1620
Renaissance
fortification
Fortaleza de São Sebastião is the Portuguese coral-stone fortress that anchors the northern tip of Ilha de Moçambique, built between 1558 and 1620 by the Portuguese Crown as the principal Indian Ocean military base of the Estado da Índia…
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- 1558-1620
Construction of the fort began in 1558 on Ilha de Mocambique, replacing earlier Portuguese earthwork defenses, and was completed in 1620 after a 62-year building campaign that produced the oldest complete European fort still standing in…
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- Fort_of_Sao_Sebastiao.jpg: Erik Cleves Kristensen derivative work: JotaCartas (talk) · CC BY 2.0
- Cornelius Kibelka from Berlin, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Photos mainly by H. Graumann and I. Piedade Pó, void of copyright as collective work. Texts by Tenente Mário Costa (1893-1968) still under copyright. · Public domain
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