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Showing posts with label Castros. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Castros. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Visit the Castro Ovil - We have

The Castro Ovil, located in the Town of stopped, and a pre-Roman fort which is dated to the second century BC, which was erected in a dominant position on a small hill. It was abandoned during the process of Romanization of the region began in the early first century
It is classified as Property of Municipal Interest

Monday, August 1, 2011

Visit the Castro Curalha

The Castro Curalha, located in the parish of the same name, and that lies about 1km from the village center, is located in a rocky hill, 400 meters above sea level. It has an oval configuration, with its major axis oriented in the EW direction internally and measuring 93.50 m. The maximum width is 61.40 m and the perimeter is approximately 240m.
The fort was protected by walls, of which three are known, with its three doors and access ramps. The width of the walls varies between 3.30 m and 4.25 m.
Within the old town castrense, there are still foundations of houses in a square of them rebuilt, and some stones stuck, who served in defense strategies.
It is likely that the period of occupation of Curalha Castro has been extended from the eighth or seventh centuries BC until the second or third century AD

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Visit the Castro Fraga da Pena - Queiriz

The Castro da Fraga da Pena, located in the Town of Queiriz, date from the Bronze Age.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Visit the Old Castro da Covilhã - Swarms

The Castro da Covilhã Velha, located in the hills of Cottages or the swarms of little crosses in the parish, has this curious name because it is relatively distant from the present town of Covilhã
It lies about 695 m in altitude between pine trees and rocks and hence can be seen in the distance to the historic village of Monsanto
The enclosure was surrounded by double walls and irregular oval of track which there are still some walls of stone masonry and irregular or several heaps of stones. Within the walls there are no buildings defined.
This fort has been the city of Lusitanian Cingínia (ie by hanofonia with place names or Cruzinha Cottages) which was mentioned by Valerius Maximus and will have been destroyed somewhere between 138 or 136 BC by the Roman troops commanded by Decimus Junius Brutus and the time of Julius Caesar. In the Middle Ages, the fort has been fortified and repopulated being exploited existing buildings.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Visit the Castro of Chalcedon - Campo do Geres

The Castro of Chalcedon is diluted in a landscape intensively granite. But this was a fortified settlement at other times extraordinary importance, because in addition to its large size, was built in a place of difficult access, wrapped in labyrinthine tunnels, trying to confuse and disrupt the enemy.
Are known, even today, many remnants of this fort, covering the area of Chalcedon is still remains of walls and even some Roman construction ceramic fragment.