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The hillfort of Las Labradas

Arrabalde, Benavente y Los Valles, Zamora

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The hillfort of Las Labradas

Nature · Arrabalde, Benavente y Los Valles, Zamora

This fortified Astur settlement, between Arrabalde and Villaferrueña, atop the Sierra de Carpurias and overlooking the floodplain of the river Eria, was occupied from the Bronze Age, though its height came in the late Iron Age and during the Roman period. With a perimeter of 2,500 metres and covering 23 hectares, it is bounded by several lines of wall defining two enclosures, one of whose entrances, excavated, shows two quadrangular bastions; inside are preserved remains of dwellings, cisterns, springs, and the ruins of a medieval hermitage, and on the southern slope there are traces of old mining excavations. Two hoards were found there, in 1980 and 1987, and in 2020 a Roman military camp was identified next to the castro, evidence of the siege by which Rome subdued these lands.

Photo: Rodelar (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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