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Ruin Attractions In Province of A Coruna

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The province of A Coruña is the most Northwestern Atlantic-facing province of Spain, and one of the four provinces which constitute the autonomous community of Galicia. This province is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and North, Pontevedra Province to the South and the Lugo Province to the East.
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  • 1. Castro de Barona Barona
    The Castro de Baroña is a fort located in the parish of Baroña, a municipality of Porto do Son in the province of A Coruña . The settlement, surrounded by two walls and containing twenty roundhouses that still remain today, was built on a peninsula and inhabited from the 1st Century BC to the 1st Century AD. A moat four metres wide by three metres deep, forming the first line of defence, was dug into the isthmus that connects the town to the fort. Beyond this, there is a rampart consisting of two almost parallel stone walls filled with sand and stone. It is thought that this rampart originally connected to the town walls, creating an area most likely without housing. The main wall is well preserved and has two sides, the one on the right is made up of three gradually rising stone walls,...
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  • 3. Castro de Elvina La Coruna
    Castro culture is the archaeological term for the material culture of the north-western regions of the Iberian Peninsula from the end of the Bronze Age until it was subsumed by Roman culture . It is the culture associated with the Celtiberians, closely associated to the western Hallstatt horizon of Central Europe. The most notable characteristics of this culture are: its walled oppida and hill forts, known locally as castros, from Latin castrum castle, and the scarcity of visible burial practices, in spite of the frequent depositions of prestige items and goods, swords and other metallic riches in rocky outcrops, rivers and other aquatic contexts since the Atlantic Bronze Age. This cultural area extended east to the Cares river and south into the lower Douro river valley. The area of Ave V...
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  • 4. Castro de A Cida Ribeira
    This is a list of castros in Galicia , ordered by provinces.
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