Coastal Settlements in Portugal - Lisbon, Porto, Povoa de Varzim, Ericeira, Mafra, Portugal (Paperback)

Chapters: Lisbon, Porto, Povoa de Varzim, Ericeira, Mafra, Portugal. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 89. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Povoa de Varzim - Discoveries of Acheulean stone tools suggest Povoa de Varzim has been inhabited since the Lower Palaeolithic, around 200,000 BC. The first groups of shepherds settled on the coast where Povoa de Varzim is now located between the 4th millennium and early 2nd millennium BC. Their dead were deposited in tumuli, which are the oldest monuments found in the municipality. The Cividade, a World Heritage site candidate, is over 3000 years old. The city's fall was the basis of the novel Uma Deusa na Bruma (A Goddess in the Mist) by Joao Aguiar.Widespread pillaging by rival tribes led the resident populations of the coastal plain of Povoa de Varzim to raise a fortified town atop the hill that stood next to the sea. The city area covered 12,000 m (3.0 acres) and had several hundred inhabitants. It maintained commercial relations with the Mediterranean civilizations, during the Carthaginian dominion of the southern Iberian Peninsula. During the Punic Wars, the Romans became aware of the Castro region's rich deposits of gold and tin. Viriathus, leading Lusitanian troops, hindered the expansion of the Roman Republic north of the river Douro. His murder in 138 BC opened the way for the Roman legions. Over the following two years, Decimus Junius Brutus advanced into the Castro region from south of the Douro, crushed the Castro armies, and left Cividade de Terroso, in ruins. The region was incorporated into the Roman Empire and pacified during the reign of Caesar Augustus. The Castro people returned to the coastal plain, where Villa Euracini was constructed. Fishing developed with the cetariae, a Roman fish factory, for the production of garum, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=31644