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What to see and do in Botorrita

What to see and do in Botorrita (Comarca Central, Zaragoza): 5 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Nature · 1 Activities · 1 Curiosities

When to go to Botorrita: festival calendar

May: San Miguel and San Agustín of Botorrita (May 8 and August 28)

How far each place is from the centre of Botorrita

Bronzes of Botorrita 800 m
Archaeological site of Contrebia Belaisca 950 m

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What to see and do in Botorrita

Botorrita
Village
Botorrita is a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, in Aragon, situated in the south of the Comarca Central 22 kilometres from the capital, in the valley of the Huerva river. It has 587 inhabitants (INE 2025). It owes its fame to the archaeological remains of Contrebia Belaisca, a Celtiberian settlement of the 4th and 5th centuries BC located within its territory, where the so-called Bronzes of Botorrita appeared, a set of Celtiberian inscriptions dated to the 1st century BC now kept in the Museum of Zaragoza. In the mid-19th century the municipality had barely 175 inhabitants, a figure that agriculture and its proximity to Zaragoza have gradually been recovering over time.
Bronzes of Botorrita
Monument
The bronzes of Botorrita are a set of bronze plaques from the 1st century BC found at Contrebia Belaisca, at the Cabezo de las Minas, near present-day Botorrita. The site has yielded four bronzes, three written in the Celtiberian language with palaeohispanic script and a fourth in Latin, which probably come from the town's municipal archive. Researchers disagree on their purpose: for Francisco Villar and Carlos Jordán they would be the archive of a legal district equivalent to a Roman conventus, while Francisco Beltrán Lloris argues that the neutrality of Contrebia -situated between Celtiberian, Iberian and Vascon territory- made it an ideal place for resolving disputes, accepting that at least three of the four bronzes record lawsuits settled there. The pieces are kept today in the Museo de Zaragoza.
Archaeological site of Contrebia Belaisca
Nature
Celtiberian oppidum located at the Cabezo de las Minas de Botorrita, also called Contebacom Bel, with a population attested from the 5th century BC to the middle of the 1st century BC. The proconsul Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus besieged it and massacred its inhabitants during the first Celtiberian war, and it was finally destroyed after Julius Caesar's victory over the Pompeians at Ilerda in 49 BC; catapult balls and the remains of a ditch with a double wall have been found there. Excavations have uncovered an architectural complex on the upper part of the hill with a possible political-religious function, and since the 1970s the bronze tablets bearing Celtiberian inscriptions known as the Bronzes of Botorrita, which give the site its name, have been recovered there.
Bronzes of Botorrita (Celtiberian Context)
Curiosity
The bronze plaques from Botorrita bearing Celtiberian and Iberian inscriptions are one of the most important sources for the study of the pre-Roman languages of the peninsula.
San Miguel and San Agustín of Botorrita
Activity
Since 1975 Botorrita has celebrated its main festivities in honour of San Agustín around 28 August, with an opening chupinazo rocket and the proclamation of the fiesta queens on the 25th; it also celebrates San Miguel on 8 May and the Virgen del Rosario, patroness of the village, in the first week of October.