Castle
Castle of Portalegre
🇵🇹 Portugal · 13th century
The Castle of Portalegre (Portuguese: Castelo de Portalegre) is a Portuguese medieval castle in the civil parish of Sé e São Lourenço, municipality of Portalegre, district of Portalegre.
It stands out over the older part of the town because of its imposing location over a higher area and because of the contrast between its dark walls and the prevailing whitewashed houses. It served chiefly as a defence of the frontier zone in front of Castile.
Text adapted from “Castle of Portalegre” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle of Portalegre ranks #3,368 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #72 of the 82 mapped in Portugal. Founded 1290, it is older than 71% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 356 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. See how Portugal compares in the castle statistics.
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