Welcome back friends, today Sunday and weekend was the day to visit something, with my family, well actually I was caught a little off guard and I didn't take the camera but cell phones are good for something :)
I had already heard about some ruins near my house but had never been there, these ruins are not just any because there are still complete monuments, without any problem
The fort of São Lourenço is located in Vila Chã, which takes us back to the 4th century BC. from the 2nd century BC. that are built, the construction exists in several levels from the beginning of the hill to the top where apparently the poorest lived in the lower part and the rich in the upper part, they usually have rows of houses in certain areas of the hill, the defense was made by walls , but with the passage of time little remains of them.
From the top, where there is a small church, we can also see the coast of the Atlantic Sea from the beaches of Ofir and Póvoa de Varzim.
According to local indications, they were inhabited by two different peoples, from the Iron Age to the mid-14th century, where they were definitively abandoned, thus leaving human traces of that time.
The houses were made of piled stones and a kind of local brownish clay, many were also made of stones and earth, thus growing moss and other types of green in the joints of the same.
The roof was made of layers of sticks or straw.
At the moment some houses have a roof and works are already underway to preserve them.
We also have a church from the time, but it has already been the subject of several interventions because there are still some festivities alluding to the Christian religion, we can still get the wall around it that is more visible and still dazzle the beaches as I said. previously.
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