WELCOME TO GHANA'S NATURAL AND MAN MADE HERITAGE

It is believed that any preserved man made or natural heritage with a preserved history will always be appriciated and automatically becomes a thing of intrest.which could attract attention at any time.so what realy matters is how much and how well the people and the world at large are attracted to these beautiful sites.for example:

Cape Coast Castle

The castle served as the nerve centre of the infamous slave trade. The castle houses the dungeons and the 'room of no return'. It is a place to experience what really transpired when able-bodied men were transported away from their own land to a foreign land never to return. It served as the West African headquarters of the Committee of Merchants and later as the seat of the British governor.
Elmina Castle

The Portuguese constructed the castle in 1482 to protect the gold-rich lands discovered in 1471. The castle is located at the end of a narrow promontory bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Benya River or lagoon. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Portuguese enjoyed a trade boom in the 15th and 16th centuries and as a result imported slaves from Benin to Elmina in the early 16th century to work in the sector in exchange of gold, ivory, etc from the local people. The Dutch however, dislodged them from Elmina in 1637.
Fort Batenstein

Butre village was among the early historic settlements generated by the 17th century inter-European and inter-African conflicts, partly because it was close to the gold-rich hinterland. In 1598, the Dutch West Indian Company established a trade post at Butre. In 1656, the company built a fort on the hill at Butre and named it Batenstein. The fort was visited by 17th century authors, Jean Barbot in 1679 and William Bosman in 1701.
Fort Good Hope

The Dutch established a lodge at Senya Beraku in 1667, and entered into a long-standing relationship with the Agona State. The Dutch subsequently built a fort there, due to the potential trade in gold, ivory and slaves with the Akyem kingdom located in the hinterland. In 1705-06, the Dutch constructed a small triangular fort on a promontory located near a cove, with a good landing beach. The Dutch named it 'De Goede Hoop', meaning "Good Hope".
Fort Metal Cross

The chief of Greater Dixcove leased to the English a site located on the shore of a large and sheltered bay, later designated as Dick's Cove (Dixcove). The calm waters and sandy beach made the site an ideal place for canoes and small boat. The Royal African Company built the fort in 1698. One of the hollow bastions in the main section of the fort was employed as a slave prison. By 1750, the fort was equipped to carry up to 25 canons.
Fort Orange

The Sekondi coast was at the centre of European trade competition in the 17th and 18th centuries. They were hostile to each other and struggled to build forts there. They formed alliances with the local people in other to gather support for their cause. The Dutch started the construction of a lodge, in about 1670 and by 1704 the lodge had become a small fort called "Oranje".
Fort St. Jago

In 1503, a missionary converted and baptized the paramount chief of the Efutu Kingdom who then offered the missionary, a hill opposite St. Jorge castle to build a church. The site was dedicated to the Portuguese saint, Jago. In 1637, the Dutch used the hill as a gun-position to attack and cease Elmina Castle from the Portuguese. In 1660, they built a permanent fort there. The stone fort, named Coenraadsburg, is unique and its military fortifications were based on the design of baroque military architecture. It comprised two giant, strong landward bastions on the northeast and northwest sides, and two smaller seaward bastions on the southwest and southeast sides. Curtain walling linked the bastions.
Fort William

From the middle of the 17th century, European companies struggle with each other in an attempt to establish and maintain a trading post at Anomabu. The Dutch built a lodge in 1640 but it changed hands, to Swedes, then to the Danes, back to the Dutch and finally to the English. In 1674, the English built a fort and called it Charles, after the reigning monarch King Charles II. However, it was abandoned in order to concentrate on Fort Carolusburg at Cape Coast. The English demolished Fort Charles in 1731 to prevent its capture and use, but the French stithly built a fort later at where Fort Charles once stood.