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Castro do monte castêlo (castro de guifões)
Located very close to the mouth of the river Leça, in an area that, before the construction of the Port of Leixões was still an estuary, Monte Castêlo rises, on the left bank of that river course. And, although it is not the closest elevation to the coast, its strategic conditions associated with the plateau characteristics of its top, from an early age made it a chosen place for the settlement of human communities.
Rua Pte. de Guifões 1199, Guifões
Matosinhos
Description
This archaeological station, also commonly known by the name of Castro de Guifões, is one of the most important stations of the Iron Age / Romanization period in the north of Portugal.
The archaeological materials already collected indicate on the one hand an origin around the beginning of the 1st millennium BC also reveal a long duration in Roman times.
Due to its location close to the sea, in an elevation of great strategic importance, it should have privileged commercial activity from an early age. At the base of this potential is the fact that the Leça estuary has always been a natural haven and is navigable, at least, to the foot of Monte Castêlo. Still in the century. XVI we find documentary references to the navigability of the Leça estuary up to the Ponte de Guifões, at the foot of Monte Castêlo.
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