Towering above the Town and threatening as it were to precipitate itself upon it,rises one of the numerous pecks of the Cintra Range,crowned by an exstensive line of battlemented walls and four towers,enclosing a large trat of irregular land, which was the Cintra of the Arabs.
Those walls appear to be still precisely as their original builders left them,a fact which,being,perhaps unique in Portugal,increases their interest and value.
Within the walls but little is left of the primitive buildings,but there can still be traced the ruins of the Mosque,of a cistern,and some others.
Taken from the book:Castles of Portugal by Almeida D'Eça (1925)
