Castelo do Crato (vestígios) / Castelo da Azinheira

Four-pointed bastioned fortress with medieval-type walls and a redan. The ruins of the medieval fortification are visible in the central area, isolated walls or with structures attached to them for the construction of artillery platforms. As examples of ruins of modern fortification, there are four redan with a guardhouse and traces of chimneys and niches. The fort's door mantains the portcullises of the drawbridge, and there is a cistern right in the center of the fortification. Some sections of the wall and from the barbican are monumentally beautiful. The first fortress dates back to the reign of King Afonso Henriques, and was extensively altered in the 15th and 17th centuries. D. Sancho II donated Crato to the Order of Hospitallers, which, at the time, was very important to the town. In the 17th century it was damaged, remaining in ruins until 1992 when the conservation and revitalization project began.