Visit the Castle Ansiães - Selores

The location of Ansiães Castle, Town of Selores, excellent results from the natural geographical conditions of the defense.
Castle Ansiães has an ancient history, whose beginning is fixed around the third millennium BC III
Since that period that the features of the site geomorfógicas far have led to a subsequent occupation of this hill granite.
Archaeological excavations have shown that the occupation of the site was started about 5000 years ago, during the pre-historic called Chalcolithic.
Since that time, the stages are witnessed by occupational interesting material remains reveal a long diachronic covering the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the whole process of Romanization of the territory Montes.
Apparently the area Castle Ansiães underwent an intense process of Romanization, extending the material remains of this occupation over a wide area that develops along the foothills north and northeast of the granitic promontory.