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Documents are first held for 21 days in a closed chamber to ensure they are free of any type of infestation and then transferred to another chamber where they are further quarantined for 40 days. Each document is then subjected to a process of hygiene where conservationists clean them. Once certified
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The Fort of Sacavém never saw battle. In 1912, a time of considerable employee unrest in
Portugal, it and three other forts were used to detain 534 strikers. From the 1930s it was used to house an infantry detachment and as a store for munitions, the latter requiring some adaptation to the buildings
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In 1872 studies began for the construction of the redoubt at Sacavém and in 1875 part of the property of the
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and was partially buried. Barracks and stores were covered by steel beams joined by filler composed of small rock, sand and lime, and covered by thick masses of earth to absorb the impact of artillery projectiles. The fort was surrounded with a moat, partially buried in the ground, creating the
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in the Vaudon style, with an irregular pentagonal shape. The main entrance is preceded by a concrete bridge (formerly a wooden drawbridge), which leads to a tunnel giving access to the interior. The ground floor of the central building was a
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free of disease they are ready to be archived and inventoried and then stored in one of five different environments with different levels of humidity, air temperature and oxygen, according to the requirements of the individual documents.
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An 1852 army memorandum identified the poor condition of the country’s defences and particularly referred to the need to fortify the cities. In 1857 the
Minister of War appointed an initial commission to study the defences of Lisbon and
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the other side of the Trancão and to prevent it being crossed, as well as to protect the road and railway line that passed between the fort and the Tagus. In 1899 a decree was issued to officially create the
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so that the munitions could be transported in and out. In 1998 the fort still had a small military force but in that year transfer to the
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1449:Fort of Cão
1444:Areosa Fort
1266:Santa Luzia
1248:Campo Maior
1124:São Vicente
1051:Santo Amaro
1044:Santa Marta
922:Bom Sucesso
915:São Vicente
823:Burgau Fort
796:São Vicente
548:in Portugal
342:Present day
157: /
133:Coordinates
1831:Categories
1743:(Terceira)
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1516:São Neutel
1395:São Filipe
1235:Portalegre
1213:Dom Carlos
369:References
274:confluence
142:38°47′45″N
1796:(Madeira)
1793:São Tiago
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1500:Vila Real
1273:São Roque
1243:Arronches
1016:São Jorge
976:São Bruno
817:Vera Cruz
789:São Roque
685:Juromenha
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227:Occupants
145:9°06′05″W
1777:São José
1700:São João
1676:São Brás
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1206:Dom Luís
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268:History
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238:Redoubt
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250:Loures
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304:Porto
278:Tagus
206:Built
183:Owner
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209:1892
170:Type
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