Castro of Villasviejas del Tamuja

The early morning of the night before, there are those who say that an exhalation rose, due to the Levant, and when I ran it lit up as much as if it were day. And it reached the top, where it was formed as a great flame that illuminated in the same way as if it were day.

The capital of Portugal is one of the most active seismic points in Europe. In Lisbon, earthquakes have been occurring with an interval of approximately 200 years, which makes the entire Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula vibrate.

The humilladeros were habitually open-air places of worship. Generally a cross or a religious image was established in them, although they could also be small prayer altars. Here devout Christians could “humble themselves”, that is, pray before the cross.

Botija has several fountains of water for human, such as Pozo del Peral, Pozo Nuevo or Pozuelo. It also has wells for cattle consumption such as the Fontarro, the Fuente Abajo and the Lejío or Egido well.

The fabric of most of these wells and fountains is made with well-carved blocks of granite, square or rounded in shape and with variable diameters.

Botija is a Spanish municipality in the province of Cáceres.

The name of the Verraco bridge is given because a boar was found in one of the cutwaters, upstream of the bridge, which was finally transferred to the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Cáceres.

In Botija, more boars have been found, animal-shaped zoomorphic sculptures that demonstrate the settlement of the Vetton people in this area, whose maximum expression is found in the Castro Vetton in Villasviejas del Tamuja, where other sculptures of the same type were also found. .

Judging by the invoice for the foundation of this bridge, comparing its structure and architecture with the Camino Viejo Bridge in Cáceres, leads us to assume that both works were carried out in the 16th century. On the other hand, the reconstruction after the great avenue that destroyed it is estimated at the end of the 16th century, beginning of the 17th century.

It is a huge masonry wall, which was used to store the water needed to grind the wheat. It used a power generation system similar to that of the mills that were attached to the dams, and which also had other uses such as fishing, washing places, drinking troughs...

Botija es un municipio español de la provincia de Cáceres, en la comunidad autónoma de Extremadura.

Botija es un municipio español de la provincia de Cáceres, en la comunidad autónoma de Extremadura.