While in Portugal, rather than stay in Lisbon, our tour housed us in Pestana Cidadela Cascais which has been built or adapted from the Citadel of Cascais. It was part of a set of fortifications built between the 15th and 17th centuries to defend the coastline which was constantly threatened by the English. I suppose you have to say, 700 years later, it failed as the place now had plenty of English tourists, including me :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_of_Cascais
The small fort wasn't accessible (or at least I couldn't find a way in),
but I had fun walking round the larger fortress.
The view from our room,
looking towards the marina,
small fort on the left.
There was only limited access to the walls.
Unbelievably our tour bus was able to reverse into the courtyard
via this gate.
What I first thought was an abandoned car
was actually a sculpture.
The fortress does function as an arts precinct.
One of those four bottom windows is ours,
probably the one the right.
What I took to be a Peninsular War memorial
Actually commemerates a number of wars
The Portuguese involvement in WW1 makes for interesting reading
No Wikipedia entry for this guy but I did find the following which fits in with the above information:
- Diogo de Meneses – Behead (or hanged) by orders of the Duke of Alba during the War of the Portuguese Succession
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