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Of castros and romans
Castro of Mount Mozinho (Penafiel)
fortified towers, where two statues of
Galician warriors were found (currently
located in the Provincial Museum).
It integrates the Route of Castros y
Verracos of the Hispanic-Lusitanian
Border.
Both these late, big citânias and the
most relevant earlier castros, such as
Castromao, Armea and Santa Luzia,
were deepening their roles as capitals
of a particular community or castro
populus.
The commercial activity of these big
castros was reflected in the presence
of imported ceramics and luxury
products. This is very obvious in the
castro of Viladonga, in Castro de
Rei, 20 kilometres far from Lugo, an
important settlement date between the
2nd and 5th centuries A.C., in the
very Galician-Roman phase, and a true
articulating centre of commerce in the
north of Galicia. The same happens
in the castro of Monte Castelo de
Guifões in Matosinhos, located in the
estuary of the Leça river. The important
amount of pieces of amphora that
were found in its excavations makes
us think of the relevance that the routes
of maritime commerce had, once in
contact with Rome. In this way, even
after the Roman conquest, they will
not lose, but rather reinforce, this
articulating role in their territories.
Geographically, to sum up, it can be
stated that the castro culture extends
in a very coincident way with what was
going to be the Roman Gallaecia:
the current Galicia, the most occidental
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