The
Citânia de Briteiros is a
Castro culture archaeological site located in the civil parish of Briteiros São Salvador e Briteiros Santa Leocádia in the
municipality of
Guimarães; important for its size, "urban" form and developed architecture, it is one of the more excavated sites in northwestern
Iberian Peninsula. Although primarily known as the remains of an
Iron Age proto-urban
hill fort (or
oppidum), the excavations at the site have revealed evidence of sequential settlement, extending from the
Bronze to
Middle Ages.