Welcome to Fort St. Jago / Fort Conraadsburg, Elmina (1660s)
Welcome to Fort Conraadsburg - Elmina, Ghana
Fort Coenraadsburg or Conraadsburg, also Fort Sao Jago da Mina, is a fort on the Dutch Gold Coast, built in 1652 to protect Fort Elmina from attacks. Many visitors to Elmina will see the hill top castle, but don`t walk up, as they concentrate on Elmina Castle! What a shame! Additionally, Ministry of Tourism of Ghana got anyway no real ideas of promoting Ghana and tourism to Ghana! An other issue is maintenance. The castle is less maintained as Elmina Castle. So is Fort Patience and many other forts and castles.
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Fort Coenraadsburg or Conraadsburg, also Fort Sao Jago da Mina, is a fort on the Dutch Gold Coast, built in 1652 to protect Fort Elmina from attacks.
It was built on the site of a fortified chapel that the Portuguese had built and that the Dutch had burned to the ground in the Battle of Elmina (1637). |
The Dutch ceded the fort to Britain in 1872, together with the entire Dutch Gold Coast.
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Some more castles of the old Gold Coast (new windows)
All websites are linked with ghana-net.com page Forts and Castles of Ghana; Fort Ussher is one of the castles with challenging history into recent times, Fort Teshie-Nungua (Augustaborg).
Back to Cape Coast... Fort William, a quiet underestimated and somehow also abandoned fort. Well worth a visit! Please be aware, that people are living there! Visit Butre village and Fort Batenstein, Western region of Ghana. |
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