Dolmen De Axeitos

Dolmen de Axeitos is a prehistoric

megalithic A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. There are over 35,000 in Europe alone, located widely from Sweden to the Mediterranean sea. The ...

dolmen A dolmen () or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the early Neolithic (40003000 BCE) and were somet ...

just to the northwest of the village , in the parish of , in the municipality of Ribeira, on the Barbanza Peninsula in the estuary of the

Ría de Arousa The ''Ría de Arousa'' is a ria, a saline estuary, that forms a firth situated on Galicia, Spain. It is one of the five ''Rías Baixas''. The Ría de Arousa estuary is the largest of the estuaries of Galicia. It is part of the Rias Baixas and is ...

in the Province of A Coruña,

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, in northern Spain. It is dated to 3600-4000 BC. Because of its historical and archaeological value, on March 11, 1978 it became a registered Bien de Interés Cultural landmark. Dolmens in Spain Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in the Province of A Coruña 4th-millennium BC architecture Bronze Age sites in Europe Buildings and structures in the Province of A Coruña Archaeological sites in Galicia (Spain) {{ACoruña-struct-stub