Castle of Algoso
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Attribution: By CastelodeAlgoso - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16402985
The castle of Algoso is one of the most important medieval fortifications in the eastern Tras-os-montes, related with the battles of Leonese succession, the tentative policies of the independent Portuguese monarch and the important religious commandery of the Knights Hospitaller that established their roots in 1224
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