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vilalba (dest)
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Vilalba Castro de Viladonga Celtic Hill-fort, discovery took place when in 1911, a local farmer got caught in his plough a gold torque braclet, which produced a series of excavation works since the 70's that left an almost circular acropolis of 10,000 square metres of surface on sight, surrounded by a defensive system made up by an alternate succession of walls and ditches. Inside the constructions are very different, belived to have been inhabited for seven or eight centuries, even surviving in the Roman age. It is the most valuable hill-fort from the didactic point of view, although there is a lot of land that is still un-excavated, but there are plenty of remains: torque, necklace pieces, brooches, a dart board, coins… which are shown in the monographic museum next to the site itself. Apart from the exposition rooms, where models and photographs are shown, it also has a restoration workshop. The site is a true formal model of a hillfort characteristic of the Northwest, with several walls and moats that lodge two antecastros or terrazes and the one ample acropole or central crown. In this main enclosure it is where they are most of the constructions discovered until now: houses, corrals and warehouses, some building of social or communal use, etc., grouped all of them forming joint or districts that articulate around two main streets and one make the rounds compares to the main wall.
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