Description Castro Marim

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Castro Marim is a Portuguese village in the Faro District, region and sub-region of the Algarve, with less than 7 000 inhabitants.

It is the seat of a municipality with an area of ??300.84 km² and 6 747 inhabitants (2011), subdivided into 4 parishes. The municipality is limited to the north and northwest by the municipality of Alcoutim, to the east by Spain, to the southeast by Vila Real de Santo António (main territory), to the south by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southwest by the parish of Vila Nova de Cacela (exclave de Vila Real de Santo António) and to the west by Tavira. Wikipedia.

Castro Marim, a town that resurfaced from old civilizations that left their testimonies there, was conquered from the Moors by D.Paio Peres Correia in 1242. Discover Castro Marim, unravel the countless points of tourist interest!

The history of this municipality, one of the oldest in the Algarve, is lost in the mists of time and presents to our eyes the fortresses built to defend the region.

Since the Phoenician period, Castro Marim, a peninsula bathed by the waters of the Guadiana, served as a haven for boats that went up the river to collect the ore extracted from the mines of Alcoutim and Mértola. At the commercial port of Baesuris, today Castro Marim, products from the Mediterranean arrived which were later traded throughout the rest of the country, in a dynamic that was maintained during the Roman occupation.

The populations that inhabited the Portuguese space have known, since very remote times, the need to equip themselves with defensive structures.
The village of Castro Marim is built on a hill in the Castle, one of the most significant invocations that the Middle Ages introduced to the Portuguese landscape, on the right bank of the Guadiana River.

The Sea, the Mountain, the Marshland, the Salt, the Gastronomy, the Handicrafts, a place of endless visiting experiences, but also of peace and quiet. A land with history that, many centuries later, continues to enchant those who live here and those who visit us.