Palmela - Torre de Menagem

From the late 14th C. keep, the Torre de Menagem, there is a good view over the whole castle complex and on a clear day you can see as far as Lisbon and the Tagus estuary. In 1484 the bishop of Évora, Garcia de Meneses, was incarcerated in the cistern of the keep, with other prisoners, for his involvement in a conspiracy, and presumed to have been poisoned there.