Alcacer do Sal Castle View

There has been a castle in Alcacer do Sal since the Iron Age and it is on the same site that the current Moorish Castle is built.
In fact the town derives its name from al-kasr, the Arab word for castle

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Alcacer do Sal travel guide »

Alcácer do Sal is an historical town crowned by castles whose medieval cobbled streets, worn over time, cluster around the banks of the Sado River, in the district of the town of Setúbal. Wrought-iron balconies look out over the river and underneath them dwell a variety of cafés and restaurants. The Sado flows sleepily past, yet the mighty ramparts and towers remind us of times when this, like…