Photograph A Famosa, the one surviving gate of a Portuguese fortress

All that is left of the 1511 fortress

A ruined stone gateway with an empty bell arch above it, cannons on the lawn and a red-roofed building to the left — Kushared (Mohammed Sardar) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Visitors walk through the arch of a weathered fortress gate, clipped hedges and a black cannon in the foreground — Marcin Konsek · CC BY-SA 4.0

A carved stone relief of two figures flanking a ship under an arch, the surface blackened and pitted — Marcin Konsek · CC BY-SA 4.0

A fortress gate seen between the spearheads of a black iron fence, brass cannon to the right under deep blue sky — Wahyu Aditya T · CC BY-SA 4.0

Black and white close view of a worn relief carving: a robed figure and an armoured figure either side of a ship — Patrick Siau · CC BY-SA 4.0

Porta de Santiago is all that survives of the 1511 fortress, and it survives because Stamford Raffles intervened while the British were demolishing it.

Sources (2)

Tourism Melaka — A Famosa Fort
Wikipedia — A Famosa