The Site Mirador Competition asked participants to design a Site Mirador and visitor center amid the ruins of the  Santo Ignácio do Zavial Fortress in Algarve, Portugal.
The fortress, located on the southwest coast of Portugal, was built in the 17th century as part of the coastal defensive strategy to protect the Zavial harbor from the imminent danger of attacks and incursions.  The Fortress collapsed in the 1755 earthquake and was never rebuilt.

In the second half of the 18th century, the Zavial Battery and small barracks located
at the rear were built on the edge of a cliff near the Fortress remains.  The battery
was abandoned in 1840.



























 










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