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Dolmen of Cabaleiros

Tordoia, Ordes, A Coruña

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Dolmen of Cabaleiros

Nature · Tordoia, Ordes, A Coruña

The Cabaleiros dolmen, also called Casa da Moura or Casa dos Mouros, is a megalithic monument located in the parish of Cabaleiros, in the concello of Tordoia (A Coruña province), Ordes comarca. Owned by the Diputación de A Coruña, it stands on a mound about thirty metres in diameter and two metres high; it is made up of seven large orthostats and a capstone measuring 4 by 3.40 metres, with an open polygonal chamber and a corridor facing east, and it is dated to the third millennium BC. According to legend, the name Casa da Moura comes from a moura who carried the great slab on her head while weaving a dress. It was declared a Monumento Histórico-Artístico in 1975, today considered a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), and it is the most notable prehistoric monument in inland A Coruña.

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