The Fortress of Cacela ( pt, Fortaleza de Cacela also known as Fort Cavaleiros de Santiago ( pt, Fortaleza dos Cavaleiros de Santiago is a fortress in the

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Vila Nova de Cacela Vila Nova de Cacela, or simply Cacela, is a town and Civil parish in the municipality of Vila Real de Santo António, the southeasternmost of the Algarve, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 3,902, in an area of 46.03 km². Cacela is an excla ...

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Vila Real de Santo António Vila Real de Santo António (, often run together as ) is a city, civil parish, and municipality in the Algarve, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 19,156, in an area of 61.25 km2. It is one of the few municipalities in Portugal without ter ...

, in the southeastern

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district of Faro (

Algarve The Algarve (, , ; from ) is the southernmost NUTS II region of continental Portugal. It has an area of with 467,495 permanent inhabitants and incorporates 16 municipalities ( ''concelhos'' or ''municípios'' in Portuguese). The region has it ...

). A castle was built there in the Muslim period. The current structure was built between 1770 and 1794. Located within the boundaries of the Nature Park of

Ria Formosa The Ria Formosa lagoon, located in the Algarve, in southern Portugal, is a system of barrier islands that connects to the sea through six inlets. Five of these inlets are natural and have mobility characteristics. The sixth is an artificial inlet ...

and Rede Natura 2000 sectorial plan, it was included in the Special Protection Zone of Cacela Velha and designated as a ''Sítio de Interesse Comunitário'' (''Community Site of Interest'') for Ria Formosa and

Castro Marim Castro Marim () is a town and a municipality in the southern region of Algarve, in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 6,747, in an area of 300.84 km2. The current Mayor is Francisco Amaral, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The mun ...

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