The stout Torre de Menagem now houses a lacklustre Museu Militar , but the price of admission is well worth the chance to climb storey after storey and take in its rooms and halls. The military artefacts themselves bring home the impact of the first Republic’s choice to join Allied forces in WWI and the cost of the Salazar dictatorship’s colonial exploits. In front of the torre is an extraordinary, primitive pelourinho (stone pillory) atop a granite boar similar to the berrões found around the province.
