What to visit
Patrimony
Castro De GoujoimRemains of walls are clearly visible, some extensive and well preserved. It is also possible to see the ruins of a watchtower in an area thought to have been the main entrance to the protected perimeter of the old fortification. In the surrounding area there is a milestone, a Terminus Augustalis (1st century AD), a delimitation element of territories of the time and is one of only three existing examples in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Description
Castro de Goujoim is the municipality's best-known archaeological site, classified as a Site of Public Interest in April 2013. It was a settlement occupied from the late Bronze Age to the Iron Age. There are also traces of later Roman and high medieval occupation. It is located at an altitude of around 820 meters, overlooking Goujoim. The remains of walls are clearly visible, some of them extensive and well preserved. You can also see the ruins of a watchtower in an area that is thought to have been the main entrance to the protected perimeter of the old fortification. There is a milestone in the surrounding area, a Terminus Augustalis (1st century AD), which was used to demarcate territories at the time and is one of only three existing examples in the Iberian Peninsula.
