MUSEU D'ARQUEOLOGIA DE CATALUNYA
[Archaeology Museum of Catalonia]
Puig de Sant Andreu
17114 Ullastret
Information sheet.
The archaeological complex of the Iron Age of Ullastret is made up of two very close fortified habitats, Puig de Sant Andreu and Illa d'en Reixac, which occupied an area of over 15 ha. These two population centres together formed, from the 5th century BC, a real city with a high population density (around 6,000 people), which became the capital of the Indigetes people. To this complex we must add the cremation necropolis located on the hill of Puig de Serra, which is located a short distance north of the fortified settlements, and which is the only one from the full Iberian period (5th-3rd centuries BC) found in the north-east of Catalonia. This city had, over the centuries, contacts of various kinds, but especially commercial ones, with some of the main peoples of the ancient Mediterranean: Etruscans, Greeks and Carthaginians. Furthermore, due to its geographical position, it also had contacts and received influences from the Celtic peoples on the other side of the Pyrenees.
Traveler's collection.
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