Holed up in the same sea as the barons, or puffed up on top of a hill overlooking priceless, like Santa Tecla, the forts of the Rias Baixas Galicia is an exciting archaeological testimony not to be missed, how to this weekend?
Circular and oval houses of Mount Santa Tecla.
From the estuary of Muros to the mouth of the river, the Rias Baixas are also a scenic and gastronomic paradise, a privileged place to discover the culture and lifestyle of a mythical town: the Galician Celts. Enter a reconstructed house at Monte de Santa Tecla or watch the Atlantic waves beat against the rocky peninsula on which the fort sits on Baroña are experiences that have much to do with the archaeological discovery as the discovery of the Galician landscape in some of its most spectacular sites.
But Baron and Santa Tecla are only two among the fifty castro sites that are spread throughout this geography marked by forests and the presence of the sea, in the form of dream beaches or restaurants where to taste delicious seafood and the rich produce of the Atlantic coast.
The fort of Baroña stands on a large rock which is a peninsula just off the mainland by a narrow isthmus, which was the first trench defending a town walled thick of the estuary and active mainly between centuries BC and I d.C. Small peek Baroña cliffs, overlooking the beach and nearby woods today can imagine how these people had to live, halfway between the earth and the sea. Stairs remains of the wall, a small square and a score of communal houses form this small labyrinth full of magic and mystery on the southern fringe of the estuary of Muros.
Further south, at the end of Candín and near Caldas de Reis, the fort is located in Castrolandín, installed on top of a hill offering a splendid view across the valley. The fort of Negros, near Redondela well as by its ancient inhabitants Galician is known by several legends of the Moors, snakes and treasures that have survived since the Middle Ages …
At the same Vigo, remnants of the Monte do Castro not only involve the testimony of pre-Roman origin of the economic capital of the Rias Baixas, but also the opportunity to get a view of scandal about the city and especially the environment of the estuary Vigo, including green Cies Islands, the jewel of the National Park of the Atlantic Islands of Galicia, the Monte da Guia neighbor in the neighborhood of Teis, another luxury hill on Vigo, was also occupied by a fort.
Always headed south, on Mount of Holy Name of Jesus Parish Pious Ponteareas council, the fort is located in Trona, dated between the sixth centuries BC and AD, one of the most important and best preserved in Galicia, and a perfect example of complex defensive system that the Celts adopted in some of their populations, with its double wall, a moat and parapet, the forest is accompanying another incentive for the visit. Not far from this, on the banks of the Minho is also the fort of Altamira, one of the largest deposits of bronze pieces from Roman times, and also maintains the database of a large group of buildings castro.
That yes, if we speak of forts, undoubtedly the star, the real icon not only of the Rias Baixas, Galicia but all are circular and oval houses of Monte de Santa Tecla, or Santa Tegra, organized around a large hill Lookout at the mouth of Minho, where are the lands of Spain and Portugal. The visit to the museum or rebuilt houses or grovii Grovii, the tribe of Celts who had his capital in the old Tude (Tuy), allows us to enter fully into the world of these indigenous Galician who built their houses with stones round covered with lime and sand mortar, roof and floor of the plant generally or trodden earth slabs, some of them enriched with decorated jambs and lintels or hallways, the Mediterranean way in the Atlantic …
In summer, the views are truly spectacular environment, and in winter, with a little luck, the fog can turn a visit to an adventure fort, where the houses ‘emerge’ in the eyes of the traveler as a vision of another time. An experience that reveals, bird’s eye view, the best essences of castreña Galicia.