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 . 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.
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  • Archaeological site
  • …lies at an elevation of 6 metres (20 feet)
  • …is also known as “Castro of Baroña”
  • …is open 24/7
  • Description: hillfort in O Porto do Son (Spain)

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Praia de Area Longa and Igrexa de San Pedro de Baroña.
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is a beach, which is situated 530 metres southeast of Castro de Baroña.
José Antonio Gil Martínez, CC BY 2.0.
is a church, which is situated 1¼ km east of Castro de Baroña.
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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.
José Antonio Gil Martínez, CC BY 2.0.
is a hamlet.
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is a hamlet.
Estevoaei, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hamlet.

Castro de Baroña

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Latitude
42.69467° or 42° 41′ 41″ north
Longitude
-9.03196° or 9° 1′ 55″ west
Open location code
8CJGMXV9+V6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 444451262
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
6354878
Wiki­data ID
Q1049903

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Spanish—“Castro de Baroña” goes by many names.

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