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Christoffelberg, Queen Emma Bridge, Curaçao Synagogue and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Curaçao and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Mountain in Curaçao
Also called Mt Christoffel or Mt St Christoffel, after Saint Christopher, the highest point of Curaçao, 372 metres (1,220 ft) high. It stands in Curaçao Christoffelpark, a protected wildlife park with several trails laid out for exploring it by car, bike, horse or on foot.
Photo: JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0
Bridge in Willemstad, Curaçao
A pontoon bridge over St. Anna Bay, on the island of Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean, joining Otrobanda and Punda, two quarters of the capital, Willemstad.
Photo: Quistnix, CC BY-SA 3.0
Synagogue in Willemstad, Curaçao
Properly the Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue, a Reconstructionist Jewish congregation and synagogue at Hanchi di Snoa 29, Punda, Willemstad. Curaçao, where it stands, lies in the south of the Caribbean and is one of the Kingdom of the Netherlands' constituent countries. The congregation dates from 1651 and the building from 1732, which makes it the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas.
Photo: Dolly442, CC BY-SA 3.0
Building in Willemstad, Curaçao
A fort in Willemstad, Curaçao, built in 1634 by the Dutch West India Company (WIC). Besides being a military fort, it housed the WIC's headquarters.
Photo: Niels Karsdorp, Dh3201, CC BY-SA 3.0
Bridge in Willemstad
A road bridge with four lanes over St. Anna Bay in Willemstad, capital of Curaçao, a Caribbean island country within The Kingdom of The Netherlands. It takes its name from Juliana of the Netherlands.
Photo: Hullie at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Church in Curaçao, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Also called Pietermaai Cathedral or the Cathedral of the Holy Rosary, the Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Willemstad, at Juliana Plein 5, Pietermaai, Willemstad, on the island of Curacao. The diocese covers all the dependent Dutch islands in the Caribbean off Venezuela.
Photo: Gerd Fahrenhorst, CC BY 4.0
Marine coral limestone caves on the island of Curaçao
Show caves on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, open to the public since 1991 and a popular tourist sight. They are made of marine coral limestone that built up over millions of years; once the sea fell, the rock was exposed to the air and worn away by corrosion and karst processes.
Photo: JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0
Church in Curaçao, Netherlands
A Catholic church on Curaçao, in the Caribbean off Venezuela, that is both a Minor Basilica and co-cathedral of the Diocese of Willemstad, sharing that role with the city's main cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady the Queen of the Holy Rosary.
Photo: Charles Hoffman from New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Uninhabited island in the Dutch Caribbean
An island of 1.7 square kilometres, with no inhabitants, 10 km south-east of Curaçao. It belongs to Curaçao, which is one of the Kingdom of the Netherlands' constituent countries, in the Dutch Caribbean.
Photo: Dronepicr, CC BY 3.0
Mosque in Willemstad, Curaçao
Also called the Curaçao Islamic Center: a Muslim place of worship in Willemstad, on Curaçao, which belongs to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Photo: Namlong618, CC BY-SA 4.0
Officially the Country of Curaçao, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: an island country in the Dutch Caribbean, in the south of the Caribbean Sea, about 65 km (40 mi) north of Venezuela, and southeast of Aruba by 80 km (50 mi). Besides the main island it takes in Klein Curaçao, a far smaller island with no inhabitants.
Officially The Country of Curaçao.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Christoffelberg, Queen Emma Bridge, Curaçao Synagogue and Fort Amsterdam (Curaçao) and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Curaçao that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
English, Papiamento, Dutch. The currency is ANG.
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