After seeing one castle, we did another one. This was the castle of Marvao. The first image is before you get to the castle itself. The city manages to tell you where you are with the landscaping (I really liked that).
We then started up the road to the castle. The castle was built under the influence of crusader style. Thus the battlement structures (like the tall cylinder and box in the fourth image) have slits for shooting arrows rather than the scallops, used in the Moorish style. 
There is also an inner and outer castle. George and Beth are at various places in the second, third and fourth image.
In the fifth image, George is on the upper wall.
We were having a snack and there was a cat wondering around (sixth image). We saw a few semi feral felines on the trip but nowhere as many as in Israel.
Like the Castle at Vide, the Castle at Marvao is on a ridge line in Portugal near the Spanish border. The last image (from wikipedia) shows the Marvao castle area and the region that can be seen from the castle. Marvao takes it name from ibn Marwan who built a castle here in the 8th century on the ruins of a Roman fort that has not been excavated yet. The castle was then improved by Sancho II and Denis in the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th.
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