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•Christian Reconquest
A newly unified Christian Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, completed the Reconquest, defeating the only Moorish enclave left on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, in 1492.
Though a castle of sorts Silves has existed here since Phoenician times, the present Castelo dos Mouros, on the site of Roman or Visigothic foundations, took shape after the Reconquest, though it preserves distinctly Moorish lines.
Its cliff-top position and labyrinthine street plan provided an easily defensible spot for the Moors, and Albufeira proved one of the last towns to fall during the Reconquest.
The Christians recaptured Faro in 1249, completing the Reconquest, and the city prospered, becoming the Episcopal see of the Bishop of the Algarve in 1577.