Citânia de Briteiros — Attraction in Guimarães

Beautiful site showing one of the most complex Castro settlements right in the culture’s heartland.

This settlement is unique in having a road grid that allows you to literally walk the same paths of these Iron Age people. Furthermore, there is an almost complete bath house that is a must see. The reconstructions are quite out dated, however, they still offer a vague idea of what the round houses may have looked like.

You are handed a map with some basic information, however, I’d definitively recommend buying the €5 visitor guide for more in depth information as it will enhance the visit significantly.

We were based in Braga for this bus and tried to get the number 13. However, a local told us it wasn’t running from the stop it was scheduled to run (there was no information about this at the stop, and this is the stop the tourist info centre told us to go to the day before) from and took us to Central I where it was running from for that day. This meant we missed the 8.30 bus and so decided to get a bolt to the site for ~€13 which was about 20 mins. We then walked 30 mins to the Castro Culture Museum in Briteiros. We then took a bus to Guimarães following Google Maps’ instructions which were accurate (it was not delayed...

Era um local pre-historico incrivel!

I generally love a great Roman ruin, tracing out the landscape, the boundaries of the homes, width of the streets etc but this mountain top Citania is the same but far more impressive - because it's older and set upon an enclosure of ample rocks on am uneven landscape. The paths that run off the main road or walkway are also rather impressive. And it's all stone all rocks it seems

I'm curious to know if there are many Celtic finds and I visited the local museum which is nice and offers a little glimpse of what was there. I'm not sure I'll have the chance to visit the main Celtic finds at the main museum in Guimares.

This is definitely worth the...

If you like ruins and stones you may want to look at this one.

The Citânia de Briteiros is an archaeological site of the Castro culture located in the Portuguese civil parish of Briteiros São Salvador e Briteiros Santa Leocádia in the municipality of Guimarães; important for its size, "urban" form and developed architecture, it is one of the more excavated sites in northwestern Iberian Peninsula.

Although primarily known as the remains of an Iron Age proto-urban hill fort (or oppidum), the excavations at the site have revealed evidence of sequential settlement, extending from...