Orientation of NE gate at Camino de las Yeseras (After Liesau 2013-2104). The cosmological and astronomic bond of ditched enclosures...

Last May we put a large post in the NE entrance of the outside enclosures of Perdigões, the one that we have been saying that was orientate...

Transition is always a moment celebrated by cultures (and not just human cultures). Transition between life and death, between childh...

To celebrate the winter solstice day here are two Portuguese ditched enclosures that, some 4,5 thousand years ago, commemorated this solar ...

Today is the Summer solstice. The inner enclosure of Santa Vitória is one of the Portuguese ditched enclosures that had the gate (...

Gates (or doors) are extraordinary important in any architecture or space organization. Being a building (with gates or doors), being a lan...

  In this older aerial picture of the new site we can see very well the eastern side of the enclosure, namely the sinuous lobules of th...

This project developed by NIA-ERA and financed by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian is reaching its final steps (it’s a two years project – 2010-...