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Portugal photos - Obidos is a medieval town already inhabited by Romans and Arabs
OBIDOS
Obidos castle
Portugal images - in Obidos, the round towers were made by the Romans and the square towers were made by the arabs
Portugal images - The whitewashed houses and narrow streets of Obidos with its typical medieval look
Obidos town
Obidos castle
Fatima tours - In Obidos you find many different items of handicraft in the many shops available.
Fatima tours - The medieval town of Obidos, with its narrow, labyrinthine streets, ancient whitewashed houses.
Fatima tours - The houses in Obidos are also painted blue, red and yellow (the colors of the town; they say that these colors, the blue and yellow, scares bad spirits away) its balconies with flowers (geraniums, bougainvilleas, arums; the town already won several competitions of flowers), its manueline doors.
Fatima tours - Obidos is a charming typical town where one can still see the medieval atmosphere.  At the top of a hill, surrounded by walls like all the towns in that time (Carcassonne and Perouges in France, Avila in Spain, Marvão, Valença, Castelo de Vide and others in Portugal) dominating a valley.
Fatima tours - In the middle of the main street in Obidos there is a corridor without holes mainly designed for ladies with high heel shoes.
Fatima tours - Obidos has a lot of handicraft: the cotton carpets are one of the specialties.
Fatima tours - Obidos town has 6 doors (2 are tiny) and each one has near the entrance its chapel or oratory made in the rock of the walls with the Virgin's statue.
Fatima tours - The walls are of Roman and Arab origins. The walls of Obidos were begun by the Romans (round towers), continued by the Arabs (square towers).
Fatima tours - The walls of Obidos were rebuilt in the XII, XIV and XVI centuries and some parts are 13 m high. King Dinis tower is 30 meters high. I advise you to go up to see the view.
Fatima tours - Like in many other medieval towns in Portugal, we see a house at the top of an arch.
Fatima tours - This is the south door of Obidos, where every goes through to get in and to get out. It has tiles of the XVIII century.
Fatima tours - Obidos has the form of an iron or of an arrow with the tip turned towards. It’s a question of defense because of the attacks of the Arabs that came from the south.
Obidos handicraft store
Obidos narrow streets with iron balconies and flower pots at the windows.
View from the walls
Obidos main street. This is where you find shops, restaurants, pensions, etc.
Obidos is all surrounded by walls.
Obidos picturesque sights. What you see in this town is what you saw hundreds and thousands of years ago.
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