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Marialva

Overlooking the rugged valley of the Rio Côa, hilltop Marialva is dominated by its forbidding 12th-century castle. Below the fort's robust walls, the village seems almost deserted, its silent cobbled lanes and stone houses seemingly populated exclusively by black-clad widows knitting in the shade.

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