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Fort of Sacavém

🇵🇹 Portugal · 19th century

Fort of Sacavém in Portugal
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The Redoubt of Mount Cintra (or Mount Sintra), commonly known as the Fort of Sacavém, is located in the town of Sacavém in the municipality of Loures in the Lisbon District of Portugal. It is situated immediately to the north of Lisbon. The fort’s construction began in 1875 and was completed in 1892. Since 2015 it has served as the National Archive for Portugal’s Directorate General of Cultural Heritage (DGPC).

Text adapted from “Fort of Sacavém” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort of Sacavém ranks #4,256 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #112 of the 132 mapped in Portugal. Founded 1892, it is older than 5% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 336 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Portugal compares in the castle statistics.

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