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Castle of Melgaço

Vila e Roussas, Portugal · built 1170

The Castle of Melgaço is located in Vila parish, Melgaço municipality, Viana do Castelo district, in Portugal.

As the main defense of the crossing of the Alto Minho river to Galicia, it constitutes the most northern sentry point in Portugal from the twelfth century.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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