ABSTRACT
Penedono Castle is located in the Portuguese municipality of Penedono, in the district of Viseu and classified as a National Monument in Portugal since 1910. It is a small medieval castle, a former residential mountain edifice figuring turrets at the angles, flanking the only access inscribed in a large broken arch to the Southwest. It has windows with seats set into the wall and a raised cistern. Its positioning on a pronounced promontory gives it a great prominence and relevance in Portuguese national history. Its foundations are supported directly on granite outcrops, with great variability in the degree of alteration / weathering and profusion of various joints families, and some filled fractures. A more thorough recent analysis has revealed underlying voids. This paper addresses the main aspects associated with the design of reinforcement and consolidation treatments to be implemented for the granitic masses on the periphery of the Castle.
