Fortress of S. Sebastião

The “Fort of São Sebastião de Egipto”, also referred to as “Forte Egipto”, is located on top of a hill in the town of Egipto-Praia, in the municipality of Lobito, province of Benguela, in Angola.
The toponymy "Egypt" given to this beach on the left bank (south) of the mouth of the Balombo river, is linked to the similarity of the palm trees - "sliding down to the sea" -, which its Portuguese inhabitants associated with that country.

History:
It was built in the mid-19th century during one of the five terms of Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo Visconde and later Marquês de Sá da Bandeira, as president of the Council of Ministers of Portugal.
At the time, in the context of the repression of the slave trade in the Atlantic Ocean, slave ships sought to evade patrolling by Royal Navy vessels, with the help of the sections of this coastline.

The fort's function was to support British ships in that combat.
In 2012, the Angolan authorities requested its recognition as a world heritage site by UNESCO, due to its connection with the history of the slave trade, which left large areas of the African continent depopulated.
In 2014, the area was included in the Seven Natural Wonders of Angola.