Castle
Castle of Melgaço
🇵🇹 Portugal · 12th century
The Castle of Melgaço is located in Vila parish, Melgaço municipality, Viana do Castelo district, in Portugal.
As the main defense of the crossing of the Alto Minho river to Galicia, it constitutes the most northern sentry point in Portugal from the twelfth century.
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Castle of Melgaço ranks #4,145 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #101 of the 132 mapped in Portugal. Founded 1170, it is older than 85% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 267 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. See how Portugal compares in the castle statistics.
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