Fortress
Fort of São Sebastião de Caparica
🇵🇹 Portugal
The Fort of São Sebastião de Caparica (Portuguese: Forte de São Sebastião de Caparica) also known as the Tower of São Sebastião (Portuguese: Torre de São Sebastião) or Fortress of the Old Tower (Portuguese: Fortaleza de Torre Velha) is a medieval fortification located in Monte da Caparica, civil parish of Caparica, in the municipality of Almada, in the Portuguese central region of Península de Setúbal.
The fortress of Torre Velha is one of the more important examples of Renaissance-era military architecture, at a time when it served as part of an integrated system of defensive artillery outposts at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century, in particular with the bulwarks of Tower of Santo António de Cascais (1498) and São Vicente (1512).
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Fort of São Sebastião de Caparica ranks #3,915 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #83 of the 132 mapped in Portugal. See how Portugal compares in the castle statistics.
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