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