Osu Castle

Osu Castle is a fortress of thick, whitewashed stone walls perched on the rocky coast of the Gulf of Guinea. Originally constructed in the sixteen sixties by Danish traders who purchased the site from a local Ga ruler for three thousand two hundred gold florins, the structure was named Christiansborg after the King of Denmark. Over the centuries, the site changed hands between the Portuguese, the Akwamu people, and the British, eventually serving as the seat of government for independent Ghana.