We are on Platform A, to tour the Roman and Islamic period.
Centuries after being abandoned by the Roman population, a small Islamic castle was created on this highest point - the little castle (castelinho) - that would give the name to this site!
Occupied by an Umayyad military contingent - between the 9th and 11th centuries AD - the castle rises over the residential area from the Roman period, abandoned in the middle of the 1st century BC. and which - in turn - had already taken advantage of the old constructions from the Iron Age!
After the destruction of 1986, of this castle only part of the two mortar-covered towers remain, and the moat! Curiously, in the rubbish dump that filled this moat were found traces of the practice of hunting and livestock farming by this population.
The abandonment of this castle and the surrounding settlement took place before the great Almohad territorial reorganisation, at the beginning of the 12th century AD.
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