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Best Roman ruins in Portugal

Portugal was part of the Roman province of Lusitania, and its Roman sites are quieter than Merida across the border, but they show two things well: town life in the interior and the fish-salting industry of the Atlantic coast.

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Conimbriga

Condeixa-a-Nova, Portugal

Conimbriga is one of the largest excavated Roman towns in Portugal, 16 km south of Coimbra, with a forum, baths, an…

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Ammaia Roman City

Marvão, Portugal

Ammaia is a Roman town of the province of Lusitania in the valley of the Sever river, below the hilltop village of…

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Cerro da Vila Roman Ruins

Vilamoura, Portugal

Cerro da Vila is a Roman villa and small port beside the marina of Vilamoura on the Algarve coast.

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Troia Roman Ruins

Tróia, Portugal

The Roman ruins of Troia are the remains of one of the largest fish-salting centres of the Roman world, on the Troia…

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Conimbriga, south of Coimbra, has the best Roman mosaics in the country, plus a forum and baths; Ammaia, below Marvao, keeps a towered gate and a forum with a temple podium; Troia, across the Sado from Setubal, has some 182 salting tanks; Cerro da Vila in Vilamoura is a villa with baths and mosaics. Reach Troia on the ferry from Setubal, and see Conimbriga at opening.

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