Fort of Is Clemente The Castle The construction of the fort occurred enters the years of 1599 and 1602, in the sequência of a period of strong privateer siege to the village. Assigned in general, something impropriamente, for “castle” (adjusted term the medieval defensive constructions), was given to it, of beginning, the name of Clement S., associated saint the sea consecrations. The symbol of Clement S., an anchor, seems to bind to the fort the ideia of a safer port. With reason. It does not have doubt of that its construction if destined to improve the security of the unproctected alentejana coast, constantly covered for privateers and pirates, and, at the same time, to defend the port and the sacrificed village of Milfontes. By the way, the first phase of the period Phillipino was fertile in arquitectónicas accomplishments, nominated in the military plan, that had included a greater and more modern fortified covering of the coast, for what contributed the coming the Portugal of Italian engineers.