We start with Lisboa, because it's got the most significant castle in the region. The Castelo de S. Jorge is visited by more than a million people each year, and it's an obligatory stop for every tourist. For various reasons. First, because it was there that everything started: the conquest of Lisboa, the movement of the country toward the Algarve lands, the discovery of new worlds, the formation of the Empire. Secondly, because from the Castelo de S. Jorge you can take the most beautiful pictures imaginable of Lisboa. It's from these heights that we truly fall in love with this Atlantic city, with its red roofs that run down to the river, the unique light that only exists in the Portuguese capital, with the calm and serene Tejo that comforts our days. Conquered from the moors by the first king of Portugal, D. Afonso Henriques, in 1147, the Castelo de S. Jorge dates from the Xth-XIth centuries, even though the city was already fortified from Roman times. The castle occupies an area of 6,000 square meters, with an irregular form and ten towers. The main tower in the middle of the southern wall, the strongest and the biggest, is the Torre de Ulisses; on the sunrise southern exposure is the Torre do Observatório, called that as it housed Lisboa's first astronomical observatory (1779). The towers on the northern exposure provide a magnificent view of the center and east of the city. The southern and sunrise exposures, which were the least defendable, are protected by an outer wall. Between these two walls is a moat that probably circled the entire enclosure. One wall, with a portal, divides the castle into two plazas. In the sunset side plaza we find, on the northern wall, the traitor's gate. In the northern wall there is also a gate called the Porta de Martim Moniz, named in honor of Martim Moniz, who by passing through this gate enabled the conquest of Lisboa. Near the castle there are various buildings and vestiges of edifices, of which should be highlighted the Casa Ogival, with five oval arcs and a gate from the 1600s that provides access to the prisons dating from the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.
A foto está ótima. Na minha apresentação eu considerara que, embora só os mouros tivessem fortificado o alcazar no nível atual, o local era estrategicamente bom e tinha sido usado desde os romanos.
o castelo !!!! áquina era uma canon pellix, um modelo que já não se faz e que tem o espelho fixo a intenção era a maquina não mexer com o disparo, o expelho é transparente e a máquina é de colecção!! alguem interessado nela??
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