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Extract from the Marvo Travel Guides:
Beautiful as Castelo de Vide is,
MARVO
surpasses it. The panoramas from its remote eyrie site are unrivalled and the atmosphere even quieter than a population of less than a thousand would suggest. No more a handful of houses - each as scrupulously whitewashed as the rest - lies outside the seventeenth-century walls. The thirteenth-century
castle
stands at the far end of the village, its walls blending into the sharp slopes of the serra. It's dauntingly impenetrable and was indeed captured only once, in 1833, when the attackers entered through a secret gate. The best time to visit is during the annual chestnut festiv...
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