Example sentences for: briteiros

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  • Just 15 km (9 miles) from Guimarães on the way to Braga is the prehistoric site of Briteiros, set on a rocky hillside overlooking a series of valleys and forested hills.

  • The other notable museum in Guimarães is the Museu de Martins Sarmento, named for the 19th-century excavator of the Citânia de Briteiros, an ancient settlement of Celto-Iberians.

  • When Celtic peoples crossed the Pyrenees in the first millennium b.c., they intermarried with the existing Iberian population and built a series of hilltop fort communities or citânias, the finest example of which is at Briteiros (see page 73).

  • There is also a fine hotel (see page 177) and an excavated citânia (pre-Roman hillfort) faintly reminiscent of Briteiros (see page 73).

  • Artifacts displayed, recovered from Briteiros and other sites, include carved stone lintels, tools, and several fascinating sculptures, such as the enormous pre-Roman Colossus of Pedralva.


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