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Citania de Briteiros
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Take a day trip to this archeological site boasting the ruins of an Iron Age fort, plus various structures & artifacts. This celtic city was one of the biggest known in Portugal. For more information, visit the nearby local Museu da Cultura Castreja (Museum of Castro Culture) in beautiful Guimarães, a museum with a small collection of interesting artifacts from the iron age town.
Take a day trip to this archeological site boasting the ruins of an Iron Age fort, plus various structures & artifacts. This celtic city was one of the biggest known in Portugal. For more information, visit the nearby local Museu da Cultura Castreja (Museum of Castro Culture) in beautiful Guimarães…
The archaeological ruins of Briteiros are a remarkable proof of the existence of an important early settlement of pre-Roman origin, belonging to the general type of so-called "castros" of northwest Portugal. Numerous buildings of various kinds, arranged somewhat freely, but obeying, however, even that incipient urban scheme, offer impressive slopes and objective for the knowledge of those people so remote, alcandoradas at the top of the mountains and yet protected several belts of walls, whose extensive cloths still can be admired.
The archaeological ruins of Briteiros are a remarkable proof of the existence of an important early settlement of pre-Roman origin, belonging to the general type of so-called "castros" of northwest Portugal. Numerous buildings of various kinds, arranged somewhat freely, but obeying, however, even…
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Salvador Briteiros, Braga