The refurbishment and reconversion project of this 17th-century fortress won, in 2014, the prize for the best restoration of a military building in Spain. What are now luxury rooms on the Spanish-Portuguese border could house 1,500 infantrymen and 200 horses at his creation.

The fort had two phases. The first, in the 17th century, when after the uprising in Lisbon that deposed Philip of Habsburg, it was built to serve as a base for an army that would recover Portugal. The Second, in the 18th century, when it was rebuilt to oppose the Portuguese stronghold of Almeida. During the war of independence, it was partially blown up and, for much of the 19th century, the surrounding inhabitants took advantage of it as a quarry until its sale to the private sector gave rise to the current construction.

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