The preserved forts are just a small part of the original village, believed that reached the top of the mountain of the Castro, where currently fortification.
For its size it is believed to host a fairly large population at the time, so it shows that even in those years Vigo was an important city in the Galician area, especially in the section of the market, in which, thanks to its proximity It kept sea fish trade with different parts of the region. Most of the remains date from the second century BC and and although as I said only a small part of the old town and still keeps 26 stone buildings right on the slopes of Mt. They occupy an area of1,800 square meters which is complete with a reserve area of more than 2,000 meters which could extend the excavation in the future. The team of archaeologists from Terra Retching, project, believes that this set castreño I can be considered a kind of protociudad or oppidum, the name given to large settlements that played a central role in the coordination of their territory. Abandoned for years, the site Vigo was very run down and it took eight months of work to get it ready and show it to the public.
