Archaeological Sites in Portugal
Dolmen in Portugal (21)
Anta da Barrosa
A Neolithic megalithic dolmen in Vila Praia de Ancora, Caminha municipality, Viana do Castelo District, Portugal, dating to the late 4th millennium BC. Also known as Lapa dos…
Anta da Estria
The Anta da Estria is a megalithic dolmen situated between Belas and Queluz in the Lisbon District of Portugal. Based on datings of human remains, it is believed to date back to…
Anta da Pedra dos Mouros
The Anta da Pedra dos Mouros, also known as the Anta do Senhor da Serra, is a megalithic dolmen situated near Belas and Queluz in the Lisbon District of Portugal. It is believed…
Anta das Pedras Grandes
The Anta das Pedras Grandes (Dolmen of large stones) is a Late Neolithic (between 4500 and 2000 BC) site located in Ramada e Canecas, in the Odivelas municipality, in the Lisbon…
Anta da Vidigueira
The Anta da Vidigueira is a megalithic dolmen or burial chamber located southwest of the village of Freixo. The dolmen was probably constructed between the Neolithic and the…
Anta de Adrenunes
4500-3000 BC: The Anta de Adrenunes is a Neolithic dolmen in Sintra, Portugal, perched at 426m on a hill within the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park. The monument features a 5m-high…
Anta de Agualva
The Anta de Agualva, also known as the Anta do Carrascal, is a megalithic dolmen situated in an urban area of Agualva-Cacém in the municipality of Sintra, in the Lisbon District…
Anta de Carcavelos
The Anta de Carcavelos, located close to the village of Carcavelos near the town of Lousa in the municipality of Loures in the Lisbon District of Portugal, is a stone age dolmen…
Anta do Alto da Toupeira
A Neolithic-Chalcolithic dolmen in the parish of Lousa, Loures municipality, Lisbon District, Portugal, approximately 5.5 metres long and 5 metres wide. Also called Anta de…
Anta do Monte Abraão
The Anta do Monte Abraão was a megalithic dolmen located in the parish of Monte Abraão, in Queluz, Sintra Municipality, Lisbon District. The dolmen was first identified in 1876,…
Anta do Paço da Vinha
Anta do Paço da Vinha is a megalithic dolmen in São Bento do Mato, Évora, Portugal, built during the Neolithic-Chalcolithic period (4500-3000 BC). The monument features a…
Antas da Valeira
The Antas da Valeira are two Chalcolithic dolmen, or burial chambers, about 100 metres apart. Situated in a farm field about one kilometer from the Vale Maria do Meio Cromlech and…
Antas do Barrocal
A set of nine Neolithic dolmens at Monte do Barrocal in the parish of Nossa Senhora da Tourega, Evora District, Alentejo, Portugal. Only Dolmen No. 1, classified as a National…
Antas do Olival da Pêga
The Antas do Olival da Pêga are 2 dolmens located near the village of Telheiro in Évora. Anta is the Portuguese name for a dolmen, a single-chamber megalithic tomb. These two…
Capela de São Dinis
The Anta de Pavia is a Neolithic dolmen erected between the 4th and 3rd millennia BC, composed of seven enormous orthostats topped by a massive capstone. The chamber was converted…
Dolmen-Chapel of São Brissos
The Dolmen-Chapel of São Brissos is a small chapel located in the parish of Santiago do Escoural in the municipality of Montemor-o-Novo in Portugal. It consists of the conversion…
Dolmen of Carapito I
Dolmen of Carapito I is a megalithic monument located in the civil parish of Carapito, in the municipality of Aguiar da Beira in the Guarda District of Portugal. The dolmen was…
Dolmen of Cunha Baixa
The Dolmen of Cunha Baixa is a megalithic monument in the parish of Cunha Baixa, municipality of Mangualde, Portugal, constructed between 3000 and 2500 BC. Discovered in 1892 by…
Dolmen of Pedra Branca
The Dolmen of Pedra Branca is a burial tomb, used in the late Neolithic and, subsequently, in the late Chalcolithic periods. It is situated in the Vale de Figueira in the parish…
Great Dolmen of Comenda da Igreja
The Great Dolmen of Comenda da Igreja is a megalithic funerary site in the civil parish of Nossa Senhora do Bispo, in the municipality of Montemor-o-Novo, in the central Alentejo…
Great Dolmen of Zambujeiro
The Great Dolmen of Zambujeiro is a megalithic monument located in Nossa Senhora da Tourega, near Valverde, in the municipality of Évora, considered one of the biggest such…
Residence/villa/farmhouse in Portugal (21)
Roman Ruins of Casais Velhos
The Roman Ruins of Casais Velhos are remains of a 2nd-century Roman villa in Cascais, Lisbon District, situated on a hillside overlooking the Cresmina Dune. The site includes an…
Roman Ruins of Cerro da Vila
The Roman Ruins of Cerro da Vila are the remnants of a historical villa in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. Its vestiges lie in the vicinity of the resort and marina of…
Roman Ruins of Milreu
The Roman ruins of Milreu are the remains of an important Roman villa rustica located in the civil parish of Estói in the municipality of Faro, Portugal. The Milreu ruins…
Roman Ruins of Pisões
The Roman Ruins of Pisões, is an important Roman villa rustica located in the civil parish of Beja in the municipality of Beja, in the Portuguese Alentejo. The building belonged…
Roman Ruins of Quinta da Abicada
Roman villa ruins located in Mexilhoeira Grande, near Alvor, Portimão, Algarve, Portugal.
Roman Ruins of São Cucufate
The Roman ruins of São Cucufate is an ancient archaeological site on the ruins of a Roman-era agricultural farm in the civil parish of Vila de Frades in the municipality of…
Roman Ruins of Villa Cardillio
The Roman ruins of Villa Cardillio (Portuguese: Ruinas romanas de Vila Cardílio) is an archaeological site located in central Portugal. The first archaeological interest in the…
Roman Villa of Almoinhas
The Roman villa of Almoinhas is a Roman villa in the civil parish of Loures dating to the first to fifth century AD. The villa was constructed during the period of Roman…
Roman Villa of Alto da Cidreira
The Roman villa of Alto da Cidreira is a Roman villa in the civil parish of Alcabideche, municipality of Cascais, in the Lisbon District of Portugal. Although known since the…
Roman Villa of Freiria
The Roman villa of Freiria is a Roman villa in the civil parish of São Domingos de Rana. The site of Freiria and its surrounding areas have long been inhabited due to access to…
Roman Villa of Frielas
The Roman Villa of Frielas is located in the parish of Frielas in the municipality of Loures in the Lisbon District of Portugal. It fell under the territory of the Roman…
Roman Villa of Outeiro de Polima
A Roman villa in Sao Domingos de Rana, Cascais, dating from the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD. First documented by Virgilio Correia in 1913, the site was excavated in 1999…
Roman Villa of Quinta da Bolacha
The Roman villa of Quinta da Bolacha is a Roman villa in the civil parish of Falagueira-Venda Nova, municipality of Amadora, with an occupation dating from the 3rd and 4th…
Roman Villa of Rabaçal
The Roman villa of Rabaçal in Rabaçal near Penela was located near the Roman road from Olisipo to Bracara Augusta in Portugal. The excavations begun in 1984 exposed the layout of…
Roman Villa of Santo André de Almoçageme
A Roman villa in Colares, Sintra, occupied from the 1st century AD until at least the mid-5th century. An early 20th-century road cut through the central peristyle, dividing the…
Roman Villa of Sendim
A Roman villa rustica in Lugar do Agrelo, Sendim, Felgueiras, discovered in 1992 during house construction. Occupied from the 1st to the 6th century AD, the villa was structured…
Roman Villa of Tourega
The Roman villa of Tourega is in the parish of Nossa Senhora da Tourega in the Évora District of the Alentejo region of Portugal. During Roman occupation of Portugal it was part…
Roman Villa of Vale do Mouro
A large Roman settlement in Coriscada, Meda, covering approximately 2 hectares, one of the largest villas in Portugal. The site shows Neolithic origins with silica and quartz…
Roman Villa of Vilares
An archaeological site in Alcabideche, Cascais, discovered in the early 21st century during residential development. Excavations between 2007 and 2008 revealed remnants of a Roman…
Tower of Centum Cellas
Centum Cellas, also referred to as Centum Cellæ, Centum Celli, or Centum Cœli, is a Roman villa rustica that dates back to the 1st century AD, located in the Mount of Santo Antão…
Villa of Torre de Palma
The villa of Torre de Palma is located about 5 km northwest of Monforte on the main road to Vaiamonte. The remains of the villa were discovered in 1947 and until 1956, excavations…
Fortress/citadel in Portugal (12)
Castro de Leceia
The Castro de Leceia or Leceia Eneolithic Station is an archeological site of the Castro culture located in the Portuguese civil parish of Barcarena in the municipality of Oeiras.…
Castro de Sacóias
The Castro of Sacóias (Portuguese: Povoado Fortificado de Sacóias/Castro de Sacóias) is a former fortified settlement and archeological site in the civil parish of Baçal. The site…
Castro of Chibanes
The Castro of Chibanes is located in the Arrábida Nature Park, on the Serra do Louro (Louro Hill), in the municipality of Palmela in the Setúbal District of Portugal, about 25 km…
Castro of Cidadelhe
The Castro of Cidadelhe is a Portuguese castro in civil parish of Cidadelhe, in the municipality of Mesão Frio. Cidadelhe was a fortified settlement of a proto-historic nature,…
Castro of Monte Castelo
The Castro of Monte Castelo is a Calcolithic fortified settlement, situated in the civil parish of Custóias, Leça do Balio e Guifões, in the municipality of Matosinhos in the…
Castro of Monte Mozinho
The Castro of Monte Mozinho, known as the "Dead City," is a fortified settlement. It was founded between the late 1st century BC and early 1st century AD and occupied until the…
Castro of Monte Valinhas
The Castro of Monte Valinhas, also called Castro of Sao Joao de Valinhas, is an archaeological site in Santa Eulalia parish, Arouca, Portugal, occupied over more than 2,000 years.…
Castro of Vieito
The Castro of Vieito is an archaeological site of the Castro culture of northwestern Iberian Peninsula, situated on the right margin of the Lima River estuary, in the civil parish…
Castro of Vila Nova de São Pedro
The Castro of Vila Nova de São Pedro is a Chalcolithic archaeological site in the civil parish of Vila Nova de São Pedro, municipality of Azambuja. It is important for the…
Castro of Zambujal
The Castro of Zambujal is a Chalcolithic age archeological site in the municipality of Torres Vedras in the western litoral area of the Centro Region. The site was discovered and…
Citânia de Sanfins
Citania de Sanfins is a major Castro culture archaeological site in Sanfins de Ferreira, Pacos de Ferreira, Portugal, covering approximately 18 hectares. Construction developed in…
Citânia de Santa Luzia
The Citânia de Santa Luzia is an archaeological site of the Castro culture located in the Portuguese civil parish of Areosa in the municipality of Viana do Castelo. Its…
City/town/settlement in Portugal (9)
Castro de Sabroso
Castro de Sabroso is an Iron Age fortified settlement atop a hill near the Ave River in Guimaraes, northern Portugal, dating to the second half of the 1st millennium BC. Covering…
Castro of Castelo Velho
The Castro of Castelo Velho (Portuguese: Castro de Castelo Velho) is a Chalcolithic settlement in the civil parish of Terena (São Pedro), municipality of Alandroal in the Alentejo…
Citânia de Briteiros
The Citânia de Briteiros is an archaeological site of the Castro culture located in the Portuguese civil parish of Briteiros São Salvador e Briteiros Santa Leocádia in the…
Cividade de Âncora
The Cividade de Âncora (also known as Cividade de Afife) is an archaeological site of the Castro culture located in Afife and Âncora, at the border of the municipalities of Viana…
Cividade de Terroso
Cividade de Terroso was one of the oldest and largest Castro culture settlements on the northwestern Iberian coast, near present-day Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, with occupation…
Roman Ruins of Tróia
The Roman Ruins of Tróia is an archaeological site on the left bank of the River Sado, on the Tróia Peninsula opposite Setúbal, in Setúbal District, Portugal. The complex includes…
Roman Villa of Ammaia
A substantial Roman town founded in the 1st century AD within the Serra de Sao Mamede Nature Park near Marvao, in the province of Lusitania. Ammaia received its civitas statute in…
Ruínas Romanas da Bobadela
The Roman ruins of Bobadela are located in the parish of Bobadela, municipality of Oliveira do Hospital, Portugal. The site includes the remains of a Roman amphitheatre.
Tongobriga
Ruins of a Galician-Roman city near the village of Freixo in Marco de Canaveses in northern Portugal. The site has been classified as a National Monument since 1986.
Megalithic stones in Portugal (9)
Almendres Cromlech
The Cromlech of the Almendres is a megalithic complex (commonly known as the Almendres Cromlech), located 4.5 road km WSW of the village of Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe, in the…
Barreira Megalithic Complex
The Barreira Megalithic Complex is located in the Sintra municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal. Situated on a small wooded hill overlooking the village of Odrinhas, site…
Menhir of Bulhoa
The Menhir of Bulhoa (Portuguese: Menir da Bulhoa), also known as the Menhir of Abelhoa, is a granite megalithic standing stone, located near the parish of Monsaraz, in the…
Menhir of Meada
The Menhir of Meada is believed to be the largest menhir in the Iberian Peninsula that was entirely carved by humans. It is situated 12 km to the north of Castelo de Vide in the…
Menhir of Outeiro
The Menhir of Outeiro, also known as the Penedo Comprido, is a megalith located midway between the villages of Outeiro and Barrada near the municipality of Reguengos de Monsaraz,…
Menhir of Patalou
The Menhir of Patalou is located in the Nisa municipality in the Portalegre District of Portugal, about 5 km from the town of Nisa. The menhir is a megalithic standing stone…
Menhirs of Lavajo
A group of menhirs in the parish of Alcoutim e Pereiro, Algarve, Portugal, likely erected during the second half of the 4th millennium BC. The largest stands over 3 metres tall…
Menir da Cabeça do Rochedo
The Menir da Cabeça do Rochedo is an obelisk-like monument made from limestone, located just north of the town of Lagos. Dating back to the early Neolithic, and of a considerable…
Xerez Cromlech
The Xerez Cromlech is a megalithic complex dating to the 5th or 4th millennium BCE, located near Monsaraz in the Alentejo region of Portugal, close to the Spanish border. Due to…
Gate/archway/bridge in Portugal (8)
Ponte da Cava da Velha
The Bridge of Cava da Velha (Portuguese: Ponte Velha/Ponte da Cava da Velha) is a Roman bridge, situated in the civil parish of Castro Laboreiro e Lamas de Mouro, in the…
Ponte de Gimonde
A Roman stone bridge in the village of Gimonde, crossing the River Onor approximately 7 km east of Braganca in northeastern Portugal. The bridge features an easel-shaped tray…
Ponte de Rubiães
A Roman-medieval bridge spanning the River Coura in Rubiaes, Paredes de Coura, northern Portugal. Part of the Portuguese Way of St. James, the bridge retains Roman voussoirs near…
Roman Bridge of Catribana
The Roman Bridge of Catribana is located near the village of Catribana in the parish of São João das Lampas, in the municipality of Sintra in the Lisbon District of Portugal. The…
Roman Bridge of Vila Formosa
The Roman Bridge of Vila Formosa crosses the Seda stream, close to the village of Seda, in the municipality of Alter do Chão, in the Portalegre District of Portugal. The bridge…
Roman Bridge over the Ribeira de Odivelas
A Roman bridge near Vila Ruiva in the municipality of Cuba, Beja District, Portugal.
Segura Bridge
Segura Bridge is a Roman bridge connecting Segura, in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal, to the Spanish municipality of Alcántara. The bridge was built over the Erges river, a tributary of…
Trajan's Bridge, Chaves
Trajan's Bridge is a Roman bridge in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior, in the municipality of Chaves in the Portuguese northern subregion of Terras de Trás-os-Montes. The…
Cave Structures in Portugal (5)
Abrigo do Lagar Velho
Abrigo do Lagar Velho is a rock shelter located 13 km from Leiria's centre in central Portugal. The site is known for the discovery of a 24,000-year-old Cro-Magnon child, the…
Cave of Pedra Furada
The Cave of Pedra Furada is a small cave located in the municipality of Vila Franca de Xira, about 20 km north of Lisbon in Portugal. Archaeological studies conducted within the…
Cave of Pego do Diabo
The Cave of Pego do Diabo is a small karst cave in a Turonian limestone outcrop located about 250 metres above sea level in the municipality of Loures, about 20 km north of Lisbon…
Cave of Salemas
The Cave of Salemas is a cave in a Cretaceous limestone outcrop near the village of Lousa, in the municipality of Loures in Portugal's Lisbon District. People appear to have used…
Caves of Poço Velho
The Caves of Poço Velho are located in the centre of Cascais in the Lisbon district of Portugal. The caves were first explored in 1879 by the geologist, Carlos Ribeiro. However,…
Necropolis/tombs complex in Portugal (5)
Artificial Caves of Alapraia
The Artificial caves of Alapraia constitute a prehistoric necropolis formed by four subterranean tombs or hypogea that were created by excavating marlstone rock using stone tools.…
Artificial Caves of Casal do Pardo
The four Artificial caves of Casal do Pardo, also known as the Caves of Quinta do Anjo, were neolithic tombs. They are situated in Palmela municipality in the Setúbal District, of…
Megalithic Monuments of Alcalar
The Megalithic Monuments of Alcalar (Portuguese: Monumentos Megalíticos de Alcalar) are a group of burial tombs that comprise a Calcolithic necropolis, located in the civil parish…
Necropolis of Carenque
The Necropolis of Carenque is an archaeological site consisting of three well-preserved late Neolithic collective sepulchres or tombs, dating back to about 3000 BCE. It is…
Praia das Maçãs Prehistoric Monument
The Praia das Maçãs Prehistoric Monument, also known as the Tholos of Outeiro das Mós, consists of an artificial Neolithic cave and a Chalcolithic domed or beehive tomb. The…
Reservoir/aqueduct/canal in Portugal (3)
Roman Dam of Belas
The Roman Dam of Belas is a 3rd-century Roman barrier constructed to serve the city of Olisipo, located in civil parish of Queluz e Belas, municipality of Sintra. The dam was…
Roman Dam of Fonte Coberta
Roman Dam of Fonte Coberta is an archeologic site of a Roman dam in the parish of São Sebastião, municipality of Lagos. The dam was constructed during the Romanization of…
Roman Dam of Pego da Moura
The Roman Dam of Pego da Moura is a small buttress dam situated in the municipality of Grândola in the Setúbal District of Portugal. The dam was constructed during the middle of…
Rock art in Portugal (3)
Escoural Cave
The Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of Escoural Cave is a structure known for its Paleolithic-era rock-art and funerary burial site, located in the Portuguese municipality of…
Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of Pala Pinta
The Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of Pala Pinta is a rock shelter in Alijó, Portugal, in the parish of Carlão e Amieiro. The paintings cover a granite surface 12 metres long and 2.5…
Rock Shelter of Solhapa
The Rock shelter of Solhapa is a Paleolithic archaeological site in Duas Igrejas, Miranda do Douro. On the cover of the grotto is an engraving, similar to others found in Spain…
Sanctuary in Portugal (3)
Fountain of the Idol
The Fountain of the Idol is a Roman fountain located in the civil parish of São José de São Lázaro, in the municipality of Braga, northern Portugal. Located in the former…
Rocha da Mina
A pre-Roman Iron Age sanctuary carved into a 12-metre schist spur beside a meander of the Lucefece River in Alandroal, Evora district, Portugal. The ritual complex features carved…
Santuário Rupestre de Panóias
The Panóias Sanctuary, also called "Fragas de Panóias", is located in Vale de Nogueiras, in the municipality of Vila Real, Portugal. Its construction dates back to the end of the…
Bath in Portugal (2)
Roman Ruins of Creiro
The Roman ruins of Creiro are situated in the Arrábida Natural Park above Creiro Beach in the Setúbal District of Portugal. They are ruins of a fish-salting factory and Roman…
Roman Thermae of Maximinus
The Roman Thermae of Maximinus, are the archaeological ruins of a monumental building and public baths, whose construction was integrated into the urban renewal of the civitas of…
Other sites in Portugal (7)
Castle of Cola
Castle of Cola is an Iron Age residence and Islamic redoubt in the Portuguese Alentejo, classified as a National Monument. The castro is part of a larger archaeological park of…
Rocha dos Namorados
The Rocha dos Namorados (Lovers’ Rock) is a large upright granite stone located in the parish of Corval, municipality of Reguengos de Monsaraz, in the Évora District of the…
Roman Milestones of Braga
The Roman Milestones of Braga (Portuguese: Marcos Miliários no Concelho de Braga) are a series of ancient road markers located in civil parish of Braga, municipality of Braga in…
Roman Temple of Évora
The Roman Temple of Evora, often incorrectly called the Temple of Diana, was built in the 1st century AD and consecrated to the Imperial cult of Emperor Augustus in the forum of…
Tholos do Barro
The Tholos do Barro is a Chalcolithic domed tomb constructed of block masonry, located on Monte da Pena near Barro village in Torres Vedras, Portugal. Dating to 2500–2200 BC, this…
Torre de Almofala
Torre de Almofala is a Roman monument in Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, Portugal, originally constructed as a temple, believed to have been inspired by the Temple of Julius Caesar…
Vale Maria do Meio Cromlech
The Vale Maria do Meio Cromlech is a megalithic stone circle situated in Évora district in the Alentejo region of Portugal. It is believed to date back to the fifth millennium BCE…
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