🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Cromlech of Xerez
Late Neolithic – Chalcolithic (c.4000–3000 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic
Squared (7 x 7 m) Alentejo cromlech of 55 small monoliths around 4 m phallic central menhir with cupules — moved for Alqueva dam.
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🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Chalcolithic (c.4000–3000 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic
Squared (7 x 7 m) Alentejo cromlech of 55 small monoliths around 4 m phallic central menhir with cupules — moved for Alqueva dam.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age (c.3000–1700 BCE) · Vila Nova de São Pedro / Bell Beaker (Estremadura)
Atlantic Copper Age hilltop proto-town (3000–1700 BCE) with walls, bastions, barbican and Bell Beaker metallurgy.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (c.3000–2000 BCE) · Vila Nova de São Pedro (Iberian Chalcolithic / Bell Beaker)
Iberian Chalcolithic type-site (3000–2000 BCE) — three-walled fortified settlement with bastions and copper workshop on Tagus plain.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Early Neolithic – Chalcolithic (c.3500–2800 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic (Almendres tradition)
Reguengos twin antas in shared mound — Anta 1 with 16 m corridor, 4 m polygonal chamber and schist plaques (3500 BCE).
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Chalcolithic (c.3000–2500 BCE) · Algarve Chalcolithic (Los Millares–Vila Nova de São Pedro group)
Alcalar (Chalcolithic 3000–2500 BCE) is a fortified hilltop settlement and 18-mound necropolis crowning the Alcalar ridge between Portimão and Lagos, Algarve, with the massive Monument 7 tholos: a…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.4000–3500 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic (Évora tradition)
U-shaped Alentejo cromlech (34 menhirs, 10 x 12 m) near Almendres — open eastern entrance intermediate to squared Xerez.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Late Bronze to Roman (c.900 BCE–100 CE) · Castro culture (Calaici–Bracari coastal)
Cividade de Terroso (Late Bronze Age–Roman, c.900 BCE–100 CE) on a 153-m hill 5 km east of Póvoa de Varzim beach is the coastal anchor of the Ave–Cávado castro system, a 12-hectare walled town with…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Iron Age to Roman (c.800 BCE–300 CE) · Castro culture (Bracari, Celtic Lusitanian transition)
Citânia de Briteiros (Iron Age c.800 BCE–300 CE, peak 200 BCE–100 CE) sprawls 24 ha over Monte São Romão 385 m above the Ave valley, northern Portugal's largest proto-urban castro with three ramparts…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Early–Middle Neolithic (c.3800–3200 BCE) · Northern Portuguese Megalithic (Beira Alta)
Anta de Pendilhe (called Orca de Pendilhe, Neolithic c.3800–3200 BCE) is a classic Beira Alta polygonal dolmen on the Dão plateau near Vila Nova de Paiva, with seven granite uprights 3.5 m tall…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Cromlech da Portela de Mogos in Évora, Alentejo, Portugal is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Anta da Pedra da Orca in Guarda, Centro, Portugal is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Anta de Santa Marta in Porto District, Portugal is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Alentejo Megalithic / Évora group
Iberia's largest dolmen near Évora — seven 8 m pillars with 12 m corridor, 4000-3500 BCE.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Rock art
Upper Paleolithic to Iron Age (~25,000 BCE – 1000 BCE; main 20,000–10,000 BCE) · Solutrean/Magdalenian to Atlantic Iron Age
Largest open-air Paleolithic art complex known, spread over 17 km of the Côa tributary with over 1,000 engraved schist panels bearing thousands of zoomorphs.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Modern (reuse) · Alentejo Megalithic → Baroque Christian
17th-century chapel built inside a Neolithic anta with seven granite uprights whitewashed as walls, near Évora.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Early to Late Neolithic · Alentejo Megalithic
Largest megalithic complex in Iberia and among oldest in Europe: 95 granite menhirs/stones in double oval (E-W aligned), decorated with cup-marks and croziers, set in cork-oak forest near Almendres.
