Fort Amsterdam (Willemstad)

Willemstad · Curaçao

Fort Amsterdam (Willemstad), Curaçao
Photo: Niels Karsdorp, Dh3201, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
Year-round; weekday mornings when the courtyard is open
Budget
$
Accessibility
limited
Coordinates
Open in maps

The seventeenth-century Dutch fort at the mouth of St. Anna Bay that now houses the government of Curaçao and the governor's residence. Its ochre walls enclose the Fort Church of 1769, whose museum displays a British cannonball still lodged in the facade from an 1804 attack.

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