Prehistory

Numerous natural resources of our territory, with abundance of rivers and forests, hunt and fishing, make Deza's region, and our municipality especially, a very favorable land to population settlements since ancient times. Proof of this can be found in traces of our ancestors left as sign of their passing.

Throughout the municipality, numerous megalithic constructions can be found being the most known "Mámoas da Cruz", in Alperiz, for being the only excaveted and for its singularity. Also it is remarkable quantity of hillforts, Iron Age settlement. In the municipality, there are identified more than thirty making Lalin one of the places of Galicia with major concentration of these settlements.

In nearly all parishes we can find some of these settlement that remain as magical places, protagonists of wonderful histories and legends. To know more about the culture of hillfort, we can visit the center “Castrodeza”, the Center of Management of the Archaeological Knowledge in Liñares´ Mainhouse, the excavations of " Castro do Penedo" in Doade, or walk along "Castriño de Bendoiro" that possesses signposting and panels, excavated for “ADIF” on the occasion of the high-speed train passing.

Castro of "O Penedo"

O Penedo" hill-fort also known as Castro de Doade and popularly as "Aurela do Castro", is located in the parish of Doade, 200 meters from the small village of Codeseda.

It has a single almost circular enclosure, which occupies one hectare. From the orthophotograph of the American flight of 1956-57, it seems that its original access would have been located in the western part, where a partial grading of the Castro's defenses was carried out to favor agricultural crops.

In 2015, archaeological activities began to be carried out that resulted in the discovery and consolidation of several housing structures (which can be visited) and the discovery of several thousand remains of clay, stone, iron, bronze, straw-mud, etc... whose time range covers from the 5th century B.C. until the II AD, exhibited in a monothematic room, called Aurela, in the Casa do Patrón Museum located in the aforementioned village of Codeseda.

It is part of the route of the PR-G 210 trail and the route of the Landscape Museum.

Imagen Castro of