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🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Iron Age to Roman (c.600 BCE–100 CE) · Atlantic Castro (Gallaeci, Celtic)
Castro de Baroña (Iron Age c.600 BCE–100 CE, with 1st c. BCE–CE stone phase) is a spectacular Atlantic castro on a rocky isthmus peninsula cut off by a 50-m isthmus ditch, its 20+ round stone houses…
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Iron Age (c.600 BCE–100 CE) · Castro culture (Gallaeci Bracari, Celtic)
Castro de Santa Trega (Iron Age c.600–0 BCE, revived 100 BCE–100 CE) crowns the 341-m Santa Tegra mountain at the Miño–Atlantic confluence overlooking Portugal, a 7-hectare terraced castro-city of…
