Gezicht op heuvel St. Jago met fort, Coenraadsbrug - - RCE
1953 Elmina, Ghana
A view of St. Jago hill and its fort above Elmina, Ghana, with the Coenraad's bridge in the foreground, photographed in 1953. The Dutch fortified the hill in the seventeenth century to help defend Elmina Castle below.
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