Fortaleza de Juromenha

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The Fortress of Juromenha is of military architecture, of medieval root, of which still today it maintains a part of the wall of castelejo. Witness of wars and bonds and inclement weather, undoubtedly strategically well situated, was considered one of the keys of the Alentejo border. From 1640, in the context of maintaining Independence of Portugal before a possible invasion of Spain, it was necessary to structure all the border fortifications of Portugal. This being one of them, and through its precarious defense, going back to the Middle Ages, King D. John IV was presented with plans for modernization. Between 1646 and 1668, this fortress underwent its restructuring, undergoing an explosion in 1659 and consequent the partial destruction of its wall and some buildings already built, and the death of some men of the garrison. In 1662 it underwent an attack of the Spaniards, having captured this fortification, passing to the Portuguese Crown in 1668.