Know Your City: Surat Fort tells tale of a once-thriving port city that travellers marvelled at

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Located on the bank of the Tapi river that meets the sea, Surat was once a thriving port trading with 84 countries in every kind of commodity. The Surat Fort or the Surat Castle, built in the style of a castle and surrounded by a moat, was meant to guard the port city against invaders, mainly the Portuguese. It is 18 metres high with four bastions and four-metre-thick brick walls fastened with iron strips and molten lead. During the restoration, taken up in 2015 by the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), it was found that a smaller version of the fort...