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Beach · Winneba

Winneba Beach

Winneba Beach is the working shoreline of Winneba (Simpa), a historic fishing port and Effutu Municipal capital on Ghana's Central Region coast near the Ayensu River mouth.

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Beach · Cape Coast

Cape Coast Castle Beach

Cape Coast Castle Beach is the open-access shoreline directly below Cape Coast Castle, a working fishing beach with dangerous surf and no documented visitor amenities.

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Attraction · Cape Coast

Cape Coast Castle Museum

An ethnography and archaeological museum in a wing of Cape Coast Castle, with exhibits on the transatlantic slave trade and Central Region history.

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Attraction · Elmina

Dutch Cemetery, Elmina

A public, non-denominational colonial burial ground in Elmina, established in 1806 and holding about 70 interments, including Dutch officials and Elmina King Nana Kobina Gyan.

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Attraction · Elmina

Elmina Castle

St. George's Castle, commonly called Elmina Castle, is a 1482 Portuguese-founded castle and museum on a promontory at Elmina in Ghana's Central Region, listed by UNESCO.

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Attraction · Senya Beraku

Fort Good Hope

Fort Good Hope (Fort de Goede Hoop) is a restored Dutch coastal fort at Senya Beraku, Central Region, Ghana, now a rest house, bed-and-breakfast and visitor attraction.

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Attraction · Apam

Fort Patience

Dutch-built Fort Patience (Fort Lijdzaamheid) stands on a promontory at Apam, Central Region, overlooking the fishing harbour and Gulf of Guinea coast.

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Attraction · Komenda

Fort Vredenburg

Fort Vredenburgh is a ruined 1682 Dutch fort on the Komenda River at Dutch Komenda, Central Region, inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage in 1979.

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Attraction · Anomabo

Fort William

Fort William is a British trading fort at Anomabo in Ghana's Central Region, built from 1753, later a prison, and now in the custody of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.

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Attraction · Cape Coast

Kakum National Park

Kakum National Park is a 375 sq km protected forest near Abrafo in Ghana's Central Region, about 33 km north of Cape Coast, best known for its canopy walkway.

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Beach · Komenda

Komenda Beach

Komenda Beach is a Gulf of Guinea beach in Ghana's Central Region, best known for the tunnel-like Komenda Sea Cave a few metres from Komenda College of Education.

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Attraction · Komenda

Komenda Sea Cave

A small natural sandstone sea cave on the coast west of Komenda town, reached by stairs from the Komenda College premises.

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Attraction · Elmina

Elmina Fishing Harbour

A working fishing port below Elmina Castle in Ghana's Central Region, where visitors watch pirogues land their catch, busiest at morning returns and evening departures.

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Attraction · Elmina

Fort Coenraadsburg

Fort St. Jago (Fort Coenraadsburg) is a small Dutch-era hilltop fort opposite Elmina Castle in Elmina, Central Region, Ghana.

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Attraction · Winneba

Fort Winneba

Fort Winneba is a 1694 Royal African Company fort on the coast at Winneba, Effutu Municipal District, Central Region, Ghana, built to facilitate the trade in enslaved people.

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Beach · Anomabo

Anomabo Beach

Anomabo Beach is a wide, sandy Atlantic beach at Anomabo in Ghana's Central Region, about 115 km west of Accra on the coastal road.

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Attraction · Elmina

Elmina Java Museum

A private museum in Elmina, Central Region, interpreting the history of the Belanda Hitam — African soldiers recruited on the Dutch Gold Coast for the Netherlands East Indies Army.

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Beach · Apam

Apam Beach

Apam Beach is the sandy Atlantic shoreline of Apam, a fishing town and Gomoa West District capital in Ghana's Central Region, about 45 km east of Cape Coast.

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Beach · Brenu Akyinim

Brenu Beach

Brenu Beach at Brenu Akyinim in Ghana's Central Region is a community-owned beach resort about 20 km from Cape Coast, near Elmina Castle and Kakum Rainforest.

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Attraction · Komenda

English Fort Komenda

English Fort Komenda is a ruined British Gold Coast fort on the Komenda River in Ghana's Central Region, part of a UNESCO World Heritage property and in GMMB custody.

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Attraction · Cape Coast

Cape Coast Castle

A coastal castle and museum confronting the history of the transatlantic slave trade.

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Attraction · Apam

Apam Fishing Harbour and Fish Market

Apam's working artisanal fishing harbour and fish market sit on the town's Atlantic waterfront in Gomoa West District, below the Dutch-built Fort Patience.

Attraction · Apam

Apam Posuban Shrine

The Apam Posuban is an Asafo posuban shrine in Apam, Gomoa West District, Central Region — a fortified concrete shrine built by the town's No. 1 Asafo company.

Attraction · Assin Kushea

Assin Kushea Palace

Assin Kushea Palace is the seat of the Owirenkyi paramount chief in Assin Kushea, Central Region, reported as the biggest palace in West Africa.