Forte de São Tiago das Cinco Pontas, Fortress and city museum in São José, Recife, Brazil

Forte de São Tiago das Cinco Pontas stands on the Ilha de Antônio Vaz in Recife's São José neighbourhood. The Dutch built it in 1630 as a pentagonal earthwork named Fort Frederik Hendrik; after the Portuguese rebuilt it in 1684, four stone bastions remained. It now houses the Museum of the City of Recife.

Dutch forces built the original fort in 1630 during their occupation of the region. When Portuguese troops retook the area in 1654, they rebuilt it using stone and limestone, giving it the form that still stands today.

The fort has housed the Museum of the City of Recife since 1938, the year it was listed by the National Historic Heritage. Its collection covers the Dutch period, the 1654 Portuguese reconquest and the city's later growth, with maps and prints that include Frans Post's views of Dutch Brazil.

The fort stands in the São José neighbourhood, south of Santo Antônio, on the site the Dutch chose to watch the port at the mouth of the Rio dos Afogados and to protect the Ambrósio Machado water wells. It now houses the Museum of the City of Recife, so allow time for the exhibits as well as the walls.

Despite its name meaning "Five Points," the fort today has only four bastions, as one was lost during the Portuguese reconstruction. This change is still readable in the layout if you look carefully at the corners of the walls from the inside.