Mancomunidad Vigo

Date: Bronze age
Council: Gondomar
Localization: A Rocha, Vincios, on the tract that rises to the Galiñeiro from the Gondomar to Vincios road.
The importance of this cave station is due to the extraordinary dimensions of its engravings, its good preservation condition and accessibility, since it is practically at the foot of the track that leads to the summit of the Galiñeiro and next to the road from Gondomar to Vincios.An application has been put in for inclusion as an asset of cultural interest. A set of four huge rocks with ancient engravings of swords and other arms.

Date: Palaeolithic, 100,000 years BC.
Council: O Porriño
Localization: Budiño, on the banks of the river Louro.
The As Gándaras site contains stone tools manufactured by man and recent research dates it to the Riss glaciation, which dates human presence in this area to between 90,000 and 100,000 years BC. This makes it the earliest Palaeolithic remains in Galicia.Palaeolithic remains with materials from Acheulean age: trihedral and two-faced picks, knife blades, drills.

Council: Vigo
Localization: Saiáns, next to the parish church. Telephone: 986 460 812.
It was conceived as a nature interpretation centre related to Man and the Sea but was transformed in 2006, into an archaeological heritage dissemination centre of Galicia and more precisely of Vigo. The study period covered by this centre ranges from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages.It is open during the school course in the mornings from 10:00 to 13:30 hours and organises workshops in the summer.

Date: Bronze age
Council: Pazos de Borbén
Localization: Near the vantage point at Santo Aparecido, parish of Cepeda.
Amongst the petroglyphs at Chan das Teixiñas, worth highlighting is the one that represents two deer with huge horns.A set of rock engravings dating to the Bronze Age, which belong to archaeological remains from which there is hope to get even more remains. The first excavations produced ceramic remains and a structure that indicates the presence of a watermill and a small granary.

Date: Mesolithic period
Council: Vigo
Localization: Candeán, next to the private cemetery
The four Chan dos Touciños burial grounds were located within a radius of less than a hundred metres. These are funeral monuments, in which in at least three of them, the access to the megalithic chamber is open. These are monuments with a diameter of between 16 and 22 metres, made from huge rocks (megaliths) which were used to configure an interior space that served for burials or for funeral ceremonies. Such burial grounds, were buried once the ceremony was completed and were then covered with a layer of stones called ""coraza"" (shell).A set of burial grounds located around the private cemetery at Candeán. There are a total of four such burial grounds and one of them is inside the cemetery. Their state of conservation is good, except for the last one, which was partially destroyed.

Date: Prehistoric
Council: Redondela
Localization: Mount Penide, in a place called Cortello dos Mouros, in Trasmañó parish.
The Mámoa do Rei is a megalithic chamber, that was probably ceremonial and funerary. Its location indicates that it was part of a necropolis from Mount Penide, where there are up to a total of 39 burial grounds.A megalithic chamber with a polygonal floor plan and dimensions of 15 m diameter by 2.5 m height.

Date: 7th century BC
Council: Mos
Localization: Torroso parish at its limits with Petelos parish
The Torroso Celtic settlement is fortified with a wall made from rubble. Many materials such as decorated ceramic and steel & bronze elements such as necklaces and a sickle were found there.It was discovered in 1983 and has a perimeter of 238 metres. The elements found at the site indicate to a Celtic settlement from between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.