Portugal

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Portugal’s Berlengas fort sits on a sea-stack islet, built from monastery ruins to fight off pirates

Portugal's Fort of São João Baptista on the Berlengas islands was built from a monastery's ruins after pirates drove out the monks, and finished in 1678.

Science22 Oct 2026

A thumb-sized bone from Portugal may be Iberia’s oldest dinosaur; it is more than 220 million years old

The 1.5-inch vertebra from the Algarve groups with England's Sarcosaurus, yet it is too incomplete to name a new species, NOVA University Lisbon researchers report.