PORTALEGRE

Although of dark Roman background, the town may have originated in the Arab invasion, since being a strategic point, it was logically able to raise there some Muslim fortification, which with the avatars of the Christian reconquest, gave rise from the medieval castle to the fortress we know today.

It is known that in the reign of D. Alfonso III he was granted his own. His son Don Dionís ordered the construction of the castle that we know today, after having arranged the reinforcement of all the defenses of the city, as he did in other nearby towns along the oscillating line of the reconquest and the border with Castile. Portalegre rich for its history and the monuments it left, had prominence in the struggles between the king and his brother the infante D. Alfonso, intervening the Military Orders in the siege and takeover of the city.

Although of dark Roman background, the town may have originated in the Arab invasion, since being a strategic point, it was logically able to raise there Muslim fortification, which with the avatars of the Christian reconquest, gave rise from the medieval castle to the fortress we know today.

It is known that in the reign of D. Alfonso III he was granted his own. His son Don Dionís ordered the construction of the castle that we know today, after having arranged the reinforcement of all the defenses of the city, as he did in other nearby towns along the oscillating line of the reconquest and the border with Castile. Portalegre rich for its history and the monuments it left, had prominence in the struggles between the king and his brother the infante D. Alfonso, intervening the Military Orders in the siege and takeover of the city.

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