Megalithic Tombs

A walk from the village of Rodeiro a few kilometers from Castro Laboreiro in the North West of the Peneda Geres park, takes you to a group of megalithic tombs. I never think early stone age constructions are that exciting, but there are several groups of tombs and they are impressively situated on a range of high rolling hills. Some of them even have cave paintings.


Alot of tombs havent been excavated so are just mounds. Constructed 4 or 5000 years BC, one can only admire stone age man's ability to cause bureacratic problems for future archeologists as the largest group of tombs are situated right across the Spanish/Portuguese border. Anyway the views are great, and its a long but easy walk up and around the tombs of around 15km. Rodeiro itself is an attractive, traditional village. I followed a circular route from Sudandobotas - downloadable here. Theres also an official map of a linear route available on the local council website here.