The Fort, built by the Portuguese in 1593-1596 to the designs of Giovanni Battista Cairati to protect the port of Mombasa, is one of the most outstanding and well preserved examples of 16th Portuguese ...

The firing platform presents one of the areas at Fort Jesus that still vividly bear testimony to the 33-month battles for the control of Mombasa between the Portuguese and the Omani Arabs.

The Kozhikode District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) is planning to digitally recreate the Portuguese fort at Chaliyam, which was destroyed by the Zamorin’s army in the 16th century.