CONTREBIA LEUCADE

Its 103 km from LogroE o. Aguilar del REo Alhama is the town of La Rioja most southern. Bordering the province of Soria and within the County of Cervera del Rio Alhama, Aguilar also comprises Inestrillas village, Gutur valley and Celtiberian - Roman settlement Contrebia Leucade.Aguilar communicates with Cervera, its head of region, through the county road 284, which is located Inestrillas one kilometer from Aguilar. Also from Aguilar, route 490 carries NavajE n and Valdemadera, and 388 to the Soria towns of San Felices and Castilruiz. The beautiful landscape of Gutur, you get through via 493 or a dirt path from Inestrillas.LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Day trips: Visit to Wine Cellar Forcada (ecological wine). Ichnite deposit "El Peladillo". Castle of Cornago. Interpretation center and ichnite deposit of Igea. Activities like bumper ball, archery, paintball, rappelling... Tourist visit to points of interest in the town of Inestrillas as the adjacent ones, Aguilar and Arnedo. Ichnite deposit of Enciso and termal pools of Arnedillo and Pozo Largo.Contrebia Leucade is the most important archaeological site in La Rioja and one of the most spectacular and significant in pre-Roman Spain. The monumentality and the exceptional state of conservation of the elements present in its interior exert a great attraction and suggestion on the visitors. Contrebia Leucade provides, also, information hardly observable in other archaeological sites on the Roman conquest of Hispania and what it meant for the indigenous communities.Contrebia Leucade is located in Aguilar del REo Alhama, near the district of Inestrillas, at an intermediate point along the river Alhama, controlling the shortest and most direct path between the Ebro valley and the Castilian plateau. The city occupies an enclave endowed with strong natural defensesThe oldest remains of the human presence in the place go back to the Bronze Age, stage to which the burial of the Cave of the Lakes belongs, at the western end of the site. Later, as early as the First Iron Age, a first settlement was built on the amassed surface of the westernmost hill of the two on which the site rises.In the third century BC, the city of Contrebia Leucade was founded. Its impressive defensive system is built and the interior is urbanized based on alignments of houses and carved streets, partly important, on the slopes of the mountain.