Star Fort: Bourtange, Holland
As we continue on our quest for these amazing star-shaped islands, we next head to the flat lands southeast of Groningen, Netherlands, to the town of Bourtange, resting along the…
The Cherry Blossom Star Fort – Goryokaku Tower
2023 Hokkaido Flower Season, Japan The cherry blossoms at the Hakodate Flower Attraction, Goryokaku Tower, and the Yoshino cherry blossom benchmark tree at Hokkaido Shrine in Sapporo, are officially in…
Star Forts or Bastion Forts
The perfect lines and angles of these star forts would have taken serious engineering, and to even excavate would have taken quite a lengthy time. Simple people of the time,…
Fort Elvas, Portugal
This is not just a star fort. Look at the hill, it’s molded into a fortress. Can you imagine the scale of the work? The date of construction is not…
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