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Elmina Castle
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St. George CastleElmina Castle (also St. George El Mina Castle; in Portuguese Mina, Feitoria da Mina, São Jorge da Mina, or Castelo de São Jorge da Mina) was a military factory built in 1482 by the Portuguese as the first trading post in the Gulf of Guinea, at present-day Elmina, Ghana.

 

It is said to be remarkable as the first (military) precast building to have been planned and executed ever, in or outside Europe.

It took part of the military and economic importance that the previous Portuguese factory of Arguim Island, on the southern border of the African Arab world, held before the Mina settlement.

 

 


All of the construction (in heavy numerated granite stone blocks) was planned by military Portuguese architects, and done under military supervision prior to its transportation by command of King João II of Portugal.

The castle was sent to Africa onboard a naval expedition led by Diogo de Azambuja, who departed from Lisbon on December 12, 1481, with eleven ships and 700 soldiers.

 

Diogo de Azambuja remained as captain of the fortress (controlling the area around it) until 1484.

 

It is interesting to know that Cristopher Columbus was allowed to go on this expedition to erect Mina under the orders of Azambuja.

He lived then in Porto Santo and was learnig naval and military skills.

Even if atlantic trade and maritime scientific skills were then closed with death sentence threat to all non Portuguese men, historians think Columbus was allowed to go as a long-term established Portuguese subject, married to a Portuguese lady and father to Portuguese children.

The main interest of the Portuguese was to gain control over the gold trade of Mina, as mina is the portuguesa word for mine - and the fortress-factory attracted the end of African hinterland native gold commerce to the Portuguese Crown monopoly, giving to that African region the name of Gold Coast it held until the independence of Ghana.

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   CENTRAL REGION

 

Cape Coast Municipal District ,-

CAPE COAST + IMAGE


Abura/Asebu/Kwamankese District , - ABURA-DUNKWA / Agona District , - AGONA-SWEDRU / Ajumako/Enyan/Essiam District , - AJUMAKO


Asikuma/Odoben/Brakwa District, - BREMAN-ASIKUMA / Assin North District , - ASSIN FOSU / Assin South District, - NSUAEM-KYEKYEWERE


Awutu/Effutu/Senya District , - WINNEBA + IMAGE / Awutu-Senya District , - AWUTU BREKU / Gomoa District , - APAM + IMAGE

Gomoa East District - AFRANSI / Komenda/Edina/Eguafo/Abirem District ,- KOMENDA / Mfantsiman District , - SALTPOND

Twifo/Heman/Lower Denkyira District , - TWIFO-PRASO / Upper Denkyira District , - DUNKWA-ON-OFFIN / Upper Denkyira West District , - DIASO

 

 

 

Castle of St George seen from the tower of Fort St Jago . Old gold and slave trading centre . Occupied in 1482 by Portugal , in 1637 by the Netherlands and in 1872 by Britain .

 

 

 

 

 

See here   ( Fort St Jago )

 

Elmina  ,           CASTLE  PICTURES        

 
 
Atlantic slave trade: afterwards the fort gained importance as a depot where slaves were
 
bought by Portuguese to local African chiefs and kings who captured them,
in exchange of textiles and horses, and held captive before being transported and resold in newly colonized Brazil and other Portuguese colonies.

In 1637 the fort was taken over by the Dutch, who made it the capital (also called Fort Conraadsburg, Fort de Veer, Fort Java, Fort Scomarus, and Fort Naglas) of Dutch Guinea.
 
In 1872 it was taken by the British. The Dutch continued the triangular atlantic slave trade there until the English released them from it.

   Elmina Castle

 

 

The fortress is reported to be the oldest existent European building south of the Sahara.

 

The present-day castle is a mixture of Portuguese and Dutch styles.

 

The castle is recognized by the UNESCO as a World Heritage Monument.

 

Other Slave Castles include Cape Coast Castle and Castle Saint Jago.

 

Renovation

Elimina Castle Renovation, August 2006 the castle was extensively restored by the Ghanaian Government in the 1990s.

 

Renovation of the castle continues as part of the "Elmina Strategy 2015" project.

 

The bridge leading into the castle is one of the highest priority tasks in the project.

 

As of August 2006, the bridge renovation has been completed and construction on the upper terraces continues.


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 Elmina, March 4, GNA-A Twenty-two-member delegation from the United States of America (USA) comprising Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and their families on Sunday visited the Cape Coast and Elmina Castles to learn, at first-hand the ordeal slaves went through and how the Slave trade was carried out.

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