Citania de Briteiros, Guimaraes

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 stop though.

Very interesting Iron Age settlement. It dates from the same time as the Santa Tegra settlement a little further north in Spain. Very helpful and informative reception staff and a useful map provided. Be careful walking around the site as there are unguarded drops. The way back to Reception from the chapel area is not well marked and we found it a bit of a scramble. Well worth the drive to get there if you are in this part of Portugal.