Fort Nassau, Cape Coast

Name: Fort Nassau
Address: Cape Coast, Ghana

#5 among attractions in Cape Coast

Museum, Forts and castles

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Fort Nassau, near Moree, Ghana, was the first fort that the Dutch established on what would become the Dutch Gold Coast. ()

Alternative names: Built: 1612 (412 years ago)Coordinates: 5°7'60"N, 1°12'0"W

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Fort Nassau – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Cape Coast Castle, Fort Victoria, Fort William, Cape Coast Castle Museum.

3.5 miSW
Museum of the trans-Atlantic slave trade
Cape Coast Castle, Cape Coast
89 min walk • Cape Coast Castle is a poignant historical landmark in the coastal city of Cape Coast, Ghana, serving as a stark reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. This white-washed fortress, originally built by the Swedish in the mid-17th century and later expanded by the...
3.8 miSW
Forts and castles
Fort Victoria, Cape Coast
99 min walk • Fort Victoria is a structure in Cape Coast, Ghana. It was initially known as Phipps Tower, its name being later changed to Fort Victoria in honor of Queen Victoria.
6.2 miNE
Forts and castles
Fort William
160 min walk • Fort William is a fort in Anomabu, Central Region, Ghana, originally known as Fort Anomabo and renamed Fort William in the nineteenth century by its then-commander, Brodie Cruickshank, who added one storey to the main building in the days of King William IV.
3.5 miSW
Museum
Cape Coast Castle Museum, Cape Coast
90 min walk • The Cape Coast Castle Museum is an ethnography and archeological museum located in Cape Coast, Ghana. It was established in 1974.
3.5 miSW
Colonial architecture
Fort McCarthy, Cape Coast
90 min walk • Fort McCarthy is a fort from the colonial British Gold Coast period in present-day Ghana. The fort is a ruin in Cape Coast, of the Central Region of Ghana.
3.5 miSW
Forts and castles
Fort William, Cape Coast
90 min walk • Fort William Lighthouse is located on the Dawson's Hill in the old centre of Cape Coast, in Ghana's Central Region. The lighthouse is often called Cape Coast Castle Light, although it is not part of the Cape Coast Castle complex.
4.1 miSW
Neighbourhood
Agona West Municipal District, Cape Coast
106 min walk • Agona West Municipal District is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region, Ghana.
4.3 miW
Sport, Arenas and stadiums, Sport venue
Cape Coast Sports Stadium, Cape Coast
109 min walk • Cape Coast Sports Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Ebusua Dwarfs. The stadium holds 20,000 people.
6.2 miNE
Locality
Anomabu
158 min walk • Anomabu, also spelled Anomabo and formerly as Annamaboe, is a town on the coast of the Mfantsiman Municipal District of the Central Region of South Ghana. Anomabu has a settlement population of 14,389 people. Anomabu is located 12 km east of Cape Coast in the central region of south Ghana. It is situated on the main road to Accra.