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Atalaia's castle
Atalaia, Portugal, Portugal
Atalaia's Castle, or Castelo da Atalaia, is a ruined medieval fortress atop a hill in Atalaia near Vila Nova da Barquinha, Santarém district, central Portugal.
Likely originating as a Lusitanian castro from the early Metal Ages, captured and Romanized around 100 BCE as a military base, it passed through Alans, Visigoths, and Muslims before Portuguese control by 1129.
Conquered definitively by Afonso Henriques in 1147 who ordered rebuilding, it received a foral charter from Afonso II in 1212 and further reconstruction with a menagem tower under Dinis around 1315, serving Tagus frontier defense.
Now overgrown and nearly vanished, its remnants evoke layered prehistoric to medieval history amid regional Roman traces.
Location
Unnamed Road, 6400, Portugal
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