What’s stranger about the star fort conspiracy theory ... One of the features of a fortification like this is that it’s impossible to take it all in at once. Rather than an imposing façade ...

The Fort, built by the Portuguese in 1593-1596 to the designs of Giovanni Battista Cairati to protect the port of Mombasa, is one of the most outstanding and well preserved examples of 16th Portuguese ...

The bulwarked fortifications of the town and the outlying Fort of Santa Luzia and Graça and fortlets of São Mamede, São Pedro and São Domingos reflect the evolution of the Dutch system of ...