Jesus castle record distant past

Bearing history

The ancient city of Mombasa''''s south-east corner stands a magnificent castle - Jesus castle, the castle has been the sea of ​​the Indian Ocean wind erosion for 400 years. It is built by the Portuguese colonists in the period 1593-1596, more than 100 m long, 80 meters wide, south and east facing the sea, natural coral rock cut chisel stone wall barrier is easy defensible military fortress, the guardian of the port of Mombasa. Solid and thick walls, the entrance is still stocked with two cannons.
The castle is divided into several major areas, the most complete, Liao Wang zone and defensive zone. There is a row of narrow holes in the walls, for the soldiers placed guns and shooting arsenal of weapons placed five meters deep, have a special channel, control them. The castle within the trial area, conference area, dormitories, cell, etc., all kinds of facilities, like a city within a country. Mombasa before was the best entrance to the outside world into the African hinterland, so it''''s right to control changed hands several times. Seen in the castle is a Mombasa, Kenya, and even Africa, the bitterness of history, history of struggle.
The latest of a building within the castle is a red roof house lined up in front of more than 10 cannon, went on display inside the object actually is basically a porcelain from the 14-16 century. According to historical records, Zheng He went to Mombasa, "Zheng He navigational charts marked" slow eight Caesar.
Castle Museum outside the walls of the gallery hung with paintings, and some paintings exaggeration to highlight the person''''s feet. I saw an old man is placed to draw, it went to the inquiry, he said: "The highlight feet foot record of people walked the streets, it has deep abstract sense." As these words for the elderly, Mombasa reservations the imprint of many historical records of the distant past, the beauty of it is the historical accumulation.
When visitors to the camera lens at the mottled old buildings, they would not have thought centuries, was saturated with blood and tears of slaves.
The base of Mombasa and Zanzibar, Tanzania, were the slave trade, slaves to leave Mombasa, it means that never left the African continent, to meet an uncertain fate in a small, dirty cabin.