A revolution of Castro

The earliest traces of human settlement are Neolithic period, about 7,000 years ago, when the area was an island surrounded by shallow waters. For thousands of years Castro Marim was a port that offered shelter to the ships that sailed up the Guadiana river to collect the metals mined to the north in Alcoutim and Mértola.
Most of the town, the churches and castle's are poor or abandoned whose glory days were at the beginning of the last century. One gets the impression of a town carefully resurecting its past to attract the tourist Euro.

⦁ a Portugese windmill
⦁ the castle of Castro Marin originating in the 14thC
⦁ the gatehouse of the castle
⦁ the flagpole
⦁ looking across the castle interior towards Huelva
⦁ the 18thC church rebuilt after a fire was originally a hermitage and the 17thC Fort of São Sebastião was part of a set of ramparts that surrounded the townRead more