Castro de Baroña
The Castro de Baroña is an Iron Age fortified settlement 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: AnaisGoepner, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Opening hours: 24/7
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: hillfort in Porto do Son (Spain)
- Also known as: “Castro de barona”, “Castro de baroña”, and “Castro of Baroña”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Praia de Area Longa and Igrexa de San Pedro de Baroña.
Praia de Area Longa
Beach
Photo: Lmbuga, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Praia de Area Longa is a beach, which is situated 530 metres southeast of Castro de Baroña.
Igrexa de San Pedro de Baroña
Church
Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez, CC BY 2.0.
Igrexa de San Pedro de Baroña is a church, which is situated 1¼ km east of Castro de Baroña.
Praia de Queiruga
Beach
Photo: Lmbuga, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Praia de Queiruga is a beach, which is situated 2 km south of Castro de Baroña.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include A Igrexa and O Dique.
Castro de Baroña
- Categories: hillfort, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Porto do Son, A Coruña, Galicia, Green Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
42.69467° or 42° 41′ 41″ northLongitude
-9.03196° or 9° 1′ 55″ westElevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
8CJGMXV9+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 444451262OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Castro de Baroña” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Baroñako kastroa”
- Catalan: “Castro de Baroña”
- Dutch: “Castro de Baroña”
- French: “Castro de Barona”
- French: “Castro de Baroña”
- Galician: “castro de Baroña”
- Galician: “Castro de Baroña”
- German: “Castro de Baroña”
- Italian: “Castro de Baroña”
- Italian: “Castro di Baroña”
- Portuguese: “Castro de Baroña”
- Portuguese: “Castro de Baronha”
- Spanish: “Castro de Barona”
- Spanish: “Castro de Baroña”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Castro de Baroña”. Photo: AnaisGoepner, CC BY-SA 4.0.