Castelo de Almeida

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Castelo de Almeida, Portugal
Photo: Duarte de Armas, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Almeida is enclosed by a twelve-pointed star fortress of ravelins, bastions and ditches built in the Vauban tradition. The elaborate earthworks and fortified gates guarded Portugal's border against Spain.

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