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Fort Metal Cross

Dixcove, Ghana

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Detailed Information

Place Types Museum
Address Dixcove, Ghana
Coordinate 4.7934851,-1.9449604
Website Unknown
Rating 4
Compound Code Q3V4+92 Dixcove, Ghana

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Reviews

Ahmed, Sadeeq Y (03/08/2021)

It was a very great experience to Tour within the Fort. It felt like traveling through time, conceptualizing the harrowing pains some of our ancestors went through in the dungeons. It was a great and agonizing experience tho.

Hassan Salih (11/07/2020)

Never knew about Fort Metal Cross untill my recent vacation trip to the Western Region. The Tour Guide was great and funny and the views from up the fort and out to sea was like nothing I've ever seen in Ghana. Love the fact that there is a guest house and swimming pool at the foot of the fort presenting other activities and opportunities to experience the fort aside the usual wallthrough tour.

Dzidefo Dotse (Kofigramm) (06/25/2020)

The British colonial fortification, Fort Metal Cross (originally Dixcove Fort) is located on a promontory near the fishing village of Infuma, in Dixcove (Dick’s Cove) in the Western Region of Ghana. The cove’s quiet waters are suitable for small boats and canoes; large ships anchor approximately 2 kilometres offshore. For the British, the motive for commencing construction of Dixcove Fort in 1692 was identical to that of the Dutch in building Fort Batentstein - to tap into the promise of gold in the hinterland; and also to win back the many English captains trading at the Brandenburgers’ (Germans’) Fort Gross Friedrichsburg in nearby Princestown. However, the people of Infuma, loyal to two chiefs whose allegiances swayed between the British and Dutch, besieged the fort several times, on behalf of the Dutch, stalling its completion. By 1750, the fort was equipped to carry up to 25 canons.