Visit the Fort of San Jose - Porto Santo

The Fort St. Joseph is located in Porto Santo. It was built during Pombal's consulate to defend the harbor of the village. During the occupation of 1801 and 1807, its dependencies, served as headquarters for British troops and were later used as a prison.
The fort has undergone several changes over the centuries.
Today is one of the tourist attractions of the island, and is furnished with eight old iron artillery pieces, disassembled.

Visit the Fort St. Neutel - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)

The Fort of São Neutel, located in the Parish of St. Mary Major (Keys).
His works have been initiated in the context of the Restoration War between 1664 and 1668, when it proceeded with the petrification of the Trinity High stakes and construction of the fort.
The strong features quadrangular, organic (adapted to the terrain), with bastions at the corners, in Vauban style, surrounded by a dry moat and a second defensive line.
Access to the fort is made ​​by a solid stone bridge, which connects the outer wall of the gate arms.
The walls of granite, have a meter to a meter and a half thick, with a height ranging from seven to ten meters.
Inside, there is the Chapel of Our Lady of Sprout. It has a single altar with a statue of St. Neutel, lying to the Lady of Brotas (persistence of an ancient pagan cult of Ceres) represented in a painting hung on the sidewall.

Visit the Fort San Francisco - Santa Maria Maggiore (Chaves)

Fort San Francisco de Chaves, located in the Parish of St. Mary Major (Keys). Along with the Fort of São Neutel, this fort was intended to defend the city on the border of Galicia, at the time of the War of Restoration.
The strong features simple plan in the form of stars, with four bastions at the corners, the Vauban system. The walls, with a thickness of one meter, range from four to twenty feet tall and are covered in granite.
The main access is through a gate on the south side by a drawbridge over the moat, now grounded. There are connections from the east side and the west side, all driving through tunnels, to the Plaza de Armas.
Among the buildings inside the fort stands the ancient chapel of St. Francis, which housed three centuries, until 1942, the tomb of King Afonso, first Duke of Braganza, restored and preserved.

Visit the Fort St. Philip - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)

The Fort of São Filipe de Setúbal, located in the Parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation, has structure in the Mannerist style. In stone masonry and brick, lined with stone masonry, has an irregular polygonal star (organic) with six prismatic ramparts and watchtowers at the corners covered with domes protruding, surrounded by a moat. On the land side, the defense is complemented by a second wall (counterscarp), outside the moat.
In its interior, which is accessed by a gate Arms west walls, defended by two ramparts, there is a lobby gives access to a tunnel of stone masonry, with a wide and smooth staircase with two flights of stairs. This, in turn, is covered by a dome and the level of their bids gives access to the bunkers. At its end are the service buildings: the Command House (former residence of the Governor of Arms) and the Chapel on the left.

Visit Fort Santiago, Outão - Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal)

The Outão Fort Santiago, located in the north of the River Sado bar, in the Parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation (Setúbal).
Joined in the past, the defensive line the stretch of coast known today in terms of tourism, such as Riviera, and in the seventeenth century, extending from the Albarquel Sesimbra, complementing the protection of important maritime town of Setubal.
This combines strong elements of late medieval military architecture (abaluartada), Gothic and Mannerist, following the evolution of artillery.
Irregular polygonal features (organic) which is inscribed the medieval tower of three floors, with bay windows and balconies to kill dogs in wedges.
Around the tower is the old service dependencies of the fort, with two and three floors, including the chapel under the invocation of Santiago in the west. Covering the side of the sea, stand with three bastions platforms for artillery, by the side of the earth, there is a tenalha with two bastions and high wall slope. In the salient angles of the bastions rise covered circular sentry boxes.

Visit the Walls of Fortress - Vide

The Walls of Fortress Vide has two thousand five hundred square meters, has an unkempt oval fort, inside which could house fighters and residents of a small town. Inside, the floor is lined with underground galleries that connect the old houses afidalgadas Avis Street and the area of the spout.

Visit the Fort of Peniche - San Pedro (Peniche)

The Peniche Fort, located in the Parish of San Pedro (Peniche), it is still an imposing military structure that deserves a visit. There is a museum (since 1984) that illustrates the history of Peniche (with archaeological and local crafts, for example) and that evokes the anti-fascist resistance, recalling that he served as a strong political prison during the regime of the Estado Novo.

The famous trail Peniche was one of the most spectacular in the history of Portuguese fascism, because it is one of the highest security prisons in the New State.

On January 3, 1960 to evade the strong Peniche: Alvaro Cunhal, Joaquim Gomes, Carlos Costa, Jaime Serra, Francisco Miguel, Jose Carlos, Guilherme Carvalho, Pedro Soares, Rogério de Carvalho and Francisco Martins Rodrigues.

Due to the constant attacks by pirates D. Manuel Ibuilt a castle / fortress site, although the work has just been completed during the reign of King Sebastian in 1570. Already during the 60 years of rule in Philippine Portugal, important infrastructure works at the fort, making it a true war square.

Visit Consolation Beach - Batagram

The Consolation Beach, located in the Town of Batagram, is extensive sands and calm seas. This beach is divided in two by the strong consolation.

Due to the high iodine content is very popular for orthopedic treatments.

Visit the Fort of Our Lady of Consolation - Batagram

The Fort of Our Lady of Consolation, located in the Town of Batagram, ordered the construction in 1641 by D. John IV, and completed in 1645.

This built on the mountain stronghold of Our Lady of Consolation had in his powerful artillery, whose range crossed the fortress of Peniche, a major obstacle to any hostile landing on the shores of that bay, where previously they had landed troops in 1589 English.

Visit the Fort St. John Baptist Berlengas - Help (Peniche)

The Fort St. John Baptist Berlengas, aka Berlengas Fortaleza, located on the island of Great Berlenga in the archipelago Berlengas, integrating all defensive Peniche.

The fort has a plant in the shape of an irregular polygon heptagonal. On the embankment, the side facing the island, presents the main building with two floors, with twelve compartments where they operated the service areas (House of the Command, Headquarters Troop, Stores, Kitchen and others) and eight magazines registered within walls. An unlit hall way gives access to various points inside the structure. Facing the sea ripping eleven gunboats.

The fort was built in the context of the War of Restoration, under the rule of King John IV (1640-1656). Although no one knows the exact date on which the works were initiated as early as 1655, when he was still under construction, successfully resisted their first assault, while being bombarded by three Turkish flag vessels.

During the Peninsular War was used as a support base for British forces in a guerrilla campaign in which the population of actively cooperating Peniche.

Later underwent renovation work, with the rebuilding of the chapel inside.

During the Portuguese Civil War (1828-1834), the fortress was in the hands of supporters of Miguel of Portugal (1828-1834).Deficient in artillery, however, resisted the assault on the liberals who used it as a basis for the assault on the citadel of Peniche, Miguel's stronghold.

Without greater military value, given the evolution of means of warfare in the nineteenth century, was dismantled (1847) and abandoned and was used as a support base for commercial fishing.

Visit Fort Whaling - Sagres

The Fortress of Whaling, located in the Town of Sagres, was built around 1573, a site of a previous similar building. The fortress, of triangular plan, was designed to protect local fishermen and housed in a local chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Guia. Currently only a few are visible foundation walls due to the advanced state of disrepair and neglect.

Visit the Fortress of Bunk - Sagres

The Fortress of Bunk, located in the Town of Sagres, was built in the reign of King Manuel D. or John III, unspecified date, but prior to 1587. Function was to monitor a possible landing zone and protect the fishermen in the area.
Inside, there is a chapel dedicated to St. Catherine. The entrance of the fort, bearing a shield with the Royal Arms and an inscription dated 1632 which refers to the reconstruction of the fort this year.
The earthquake of 1755 caused him great harm, and was gradually abandoned. Was recovered in 1960.

Visit the Fortress of Sagres

The Fortress of Sagres is located in a dominant position crowning the Ponta de Sagres, in the village of Sagres.
From its craggy cliffs, constantly beaten by wind, the visitor enjoys a breathtaking panorama along the coast.
The fort itself and its surroundings, built in the Natural Park of Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina, offer the possibility of a close look at the natural heritage of the coast, especially with regard to flora, sheltering some of the most representative species of the region (as eg alquitura-do-algarve-Pampilhosa the sea, the Zimbreiro, the Vincentian Polio, the herb-divine, esparto, the daffodil-the-sand, a salting, the whiner, the leek-mad, and the hollyhocks Perrexil-fish).
The fort was badly damaged by the tsunami immediately following the earthquake of 1755, when the giant wave climbed the height of the cliff. The state of ruin, caused by time and the elements, remained until the reign of King Mary I (1777-1816) when it ordered the reconstruction of the structure.
Classified as a National Monument by Decree of June 16, 1910, restoration work was promoted in the 1950s and 1960s seeking to distort the structure return it to original configuration sixteenth century.
Today, the Fortress of Sagres is open daily to the public. Besides being able to assess the structures before the eighteenth century, recovered, modern interventions allowed to visit the various areas of the headland, and can still take advantage of an exhibition center, a media center, shops selling cultural items and a cafeteria.
The Fortress has a polygonal bastion trace, and is composed of a curtain closing the land side and a wall that extends into the left flank. At both ends of the curtain rise from the mid-1793's ramparts, one under the invocation of Saint Barbara (patron saint of Artillery) and one of St. Anthony (patron saint of the Portuguese Army).
Halfway through the curtain opens the Gate Plaza Monumental in neoclassical style, topped by a coat of arms on the pediment and an epigraphic plaque referring to the then governor of the Algarve, D. Nuno José Nepomuceno Fulgencio John de Mendonca e Moura (1793).

Visit the Fort St. Louis of Almadena - Budens

The Fort St. Louis of Almadena, located in the Town of Budens, must have started to be built around 1632. Despite the 1755 earthquake does not have caused extensive damage, the same can not be said of the action of erosion and abandonment that was voted. Despite being classified as property of public interest, lies in ruins and abandoned.