Moura Castle walls

Not a lot remains of the 13th century Castelo de Moura. The castle was built during the rain of Dom Dinis on the site of a Moorish citadel following the reconquest of the Alentejo. However the castle was largely destroyed by the Spanish Duke of Osuna in the 17th century Restoration War.

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Moura is a large town in the thinly-populated (and relatively impoverished) Alentejo region. The town is supposedly named after the Moorish Princess Moura Saluquia. Legend has it that Saluquia threw herself from one of the towers of the castle after her lover was killed and she was subsequently tricked by the Portuguese, who dressed up in his clothes, into lowering the drawbridge.The Moors' five…