Obidos is a little town located about an hour north of Lisbon by car. It is surrounded by an intact castle wall. We stayed at this B&B, in the 2-bedroom apartment:
http://www.casadobidos.com/english/index.html
It overlooks the castle and the apartment we stayed in had a yard and BBQ that we used for dinner. The breakfast they served there was the biggest breakfast spread I've ever seen at a B&B - even bigger than the breakfasts we ate while on safari. I highly recommend it although things might have changed in the past 4 years since we were there and it's probably not the same anymore.
Here is our B&B with the castle behind it (the town of Obidos is all contained within the castle walls):
And another pic with the rest of the walls in it (I couldn't get the whole thing without some sort of panoramic camera):
Obidos is a very cute little town. It's filled with shops and it's fun to walk around in for a day. You don't need more than a day in Obidos though, unless you have day trips planned to other nearby towns. We stayed two nights there and would have been somewhat bored the second afternoon/evening except that we met up with some friends from college there (who flew in from Germany) and hung out with them that evening.
You can also walk all around the wall, which we did (I think most of the pictures in this post were taken from the top of the wall):
I'm not sure if you can go into the castle anymore or not ... it has been turned into a 5-star hotel or a spa or something like that for rich people. Many castles in Portugal have been turned into luxury hotels, and they are called Pousadas. I'm sure they're very nice to stay in if you can afford them.
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