Monte Santa Trega
Monte de Santa Trega
A hilltop at the mouth of the Miño River, dotted with more than a hundred reconstructed Celtic roundhouse ruins and overlooking Portugal and the Atlantic.
Monte Santa Trega sits about 50 km south of Vigo in A Guarda. It rises to about 340 meters and overlooks the Miño estuary and Caminha on the Portuguese side. The Celtic castro on the slope is one of Galicia's largest and best-known Iron Age settlements. It flourished around the 1st century BC, and hundreds of round and oval stone house foundations have been excavated, several of them reconstructed with their original thatched roofs. The summit has an archaeological museum, a hermitage and viewpoints over the estuary sandbars and the Atlantic. There is a small entry fee for the road up. The port of A Guarda below is famous for lobster.
Opening hours
Open all day; museum closed Mon
Nearby sights
- Baiona: Monterreal Fortress & Pinta Replica
- Tui Cathedral & Old Town
- Samil Beach
- Cíes Islands & Rodas Beach
- Museo do Mar de Galicia
- Castrelos Park & Pazo Quiñones de León
- Cabo Home & Costa da Vela
- Castro Fortress Park