The northernmost point of Portugal is the municipality of Melgaço. Therefore, in time, strong defenses that allied themselves with the difficulties of the land to protect the country were necessary. In the castles of Portugal, we visited, this time, those of Melgaço and Castro Laboreiro.
There are millennia that humans inhabit the Plateau de Castro Laboreiro and that, from the rocks and near the clouds, built an almost inaccessible world,Omo is the case of Castle of Castro Laboreiro.
From the village, the step to fortification challenges the senses (and even the body) so that, between stones and cliffs, a piece of history and mystery is found.
D. Afonso Henriques took the castle in 1141. There are those who say that by force, but there are those who argue that it was without weapons, in the context of the Portuguese victory in the recount of Valdevez.
However, the origin of fortification may be much older than the first Portuguese king, taking into account some evidence.
