Almeida

Guarda (Centro)

Almeida is a star fortress — literally: a twelve-pointed bastion town on the Spanish frontier, one of Europe’s finest military engineering works, with ramparts you can walk, a siege-history museum and granite silence inside the star.

Don’t miss

The star-fortress ramparts circuit
Military history museum
Historic village inside the walls
Views over the Côa valley

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