page_title: Cividade de Terroso
section_title: Streets
hierarchical_section_title: Cividade de Terroso / Urban structure / Streets
caption_attribution_description: English: Central street, Cividade de Terroso
context_page_description: Cividade de Terroso was an ancient city of the Castro culture in North-western coast of the Iberian Peninsula, situated near the present bed of the Ave river, in the suburbs of present-day Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.
  Located in the heart of the Castro region, the cividade played a leading role in the early urbanization of the region in the early 1st millennium BC, as one of the oldest, largest and impregnable castro settlements. It was important in coastal trading as it was part of well-established maritime trade routes with the Mediterranean. Celtic and later Carthaginian influence are well-known, it was eventually destroyed after the Roman conquest in 138 BC.
  The city's name in antiquity is not known with certainty but it was known during the Middle Ages as Civitas Teroso. it was built at the summit of Cividade Hill, in the suburban area of Terroso, less than 5 km from the coast, near the eastern edge of modern Póvoa de Varzim.
  Beyond the main citadel, three of Cividade de Terroso's outposts are known: Castro de Laundos, Castro de Navais, and Castro de Argivai. Cividade de Terroso is located just 6,3 km from Cividade de Bagunte both in the North bank of the Ave river.
context_section_description: The family settings were divided by narrow roads with some public spaces. The two main streets had the typical Roman orientation of the Decumanus and Cardium.
  The Decumanus was the city's main avenue that slightly followed the wall to the East for the West and slightly curved for Southwest from the crossroad with the Cardium (North-South street), the later reaches the entrance of the citadel. The exterior access was fulfilled by a slight descending reaching the way that is still used today to enter in the town.
  These main roads divided the settlement in four parts. Each one of these parts had four or five family settings.
  In some areas of the city, vestiges of sewers or narrow channels had been discovered; these could have been  used to channel rain water.
caption: Decumanus street.
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