Qal`at al-Bahrain

Or in Arabic ( قلعة البحرين‎ meaning Bahrain Castle)

It's funny to go to a place and see written "Portuguese Fort", of course when we came to Bahrain we weren´t expecting to see anything from the portuguese and somehow we found traces from Portuguese People. Portugal it's a small country but we are all over :)

This fort it´s in a as archeological site that was an ancient capital of the Dilmun civilization around 2300 BC.

This site in Bahrain was occupied by the Portuguese in 1521, because this was an estartegical position to secure the route to India, that was important to bring spices to Portugal.
In 1561 the site was improved with wall forming a fort.

The Portuguese were expeled from Bahrain in 1602, but we left this landmark.