Almodôvar
With occupancy to go back to the Iron Age, the Castelinho of seating town is located on a high point but weak territorial domain, the natural border zone between Serra do Algarve and the Alentejo. Among the remaining ruins are vestiges of Islamic occupation. The most notorious is a small fortress dating from the Umayyad […]
The Southwest Writing Museum is located in the town of Almodovar, Beja District, Portugal, dedicated to Conia writing. The museum is housed in the old building Municipal Movie Theatre, in the historic center of Almodovar. It opened to the public on September 29, 2007. The museum’s permanent collection has about 20 pieces, including a permanent […]
The Almodovar village is marked in medieval Islamic cartography under the name “Al-Mudura” a word that means “round thing” or “fenced round.” The village was rebuilt at the time of the Muslim invasion of the Iberian peninsula, the time it was surrounded by walls and built a castle, whose remains, however, disappeared. At the time […]
