Real Fuerte de la Concepción

Today: Real Fuerte de la Concepción, Aldea del Obispo

Place: Aldea del Obispo
Kind: Fort
Built: 1736 to 1758
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Private

A bastioned fort on the border with Portugal. A first earth fort, begun on 8 December 1663 in the Portuguese Restoration War, was ordered demolished in 1664; the present one was designed by Pedro Moreau and built from 1 May 1736 to 1758. In 1810 British troops blew it up in part. It was restored between 2006 and 2012 and served as a hotel; it is one of the few fortresses on the Peninsula in private hands.

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