Hillfort
Mansión Viaria de Aquis Querquennis
Os Baños · Bande · Ourense
Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, Spain · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Aquis Querquennis is a Roman fort in Ourense Province, Galicia. It was constructed circa 69-79 AD to house soldiers building the Via XVIII and was occupied by the Legio VII Gemina until that unit was posted to Dacia in 120 AD and the fort abandoned. The fort was rediscovered in the 1920s and some excavations carried out by local archaeologist Florentino López Cuevillas. In 1949 the site was flooded by construction of the As Conchas reservoir. Since 1975 excavations have been carried out on the fort during periods when the reservoir level falls.
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Facts
Period Roman
What it is Fortified enclosure
Elevation here ≈ 535 m · Terrain Tiles
Nearest town Bande, 6 km away
Trail nearby Camiño Natural de San Rosendo, 429 m away
People in the municipality 1,459 (2025) · IGE
Getting there by bus
- Porto Quintela (marquesiña)586 m awayENTRIMO-BANDE · Entrimo-Bande · Bande-Entrimo (pola Herdadiña) · Bande-Entrimo (pola Herdadiña) · IES AQUIS QUERQUERNIS-GUXINDE · IES Aquis Querquernis-Compostela
- Os Baños639 m awayENTRIMO-BANDE · Bande-Entrimo (pola Herdadiña) · CEIP Xoaquín Lourenzo Xocas-Facós · IES Aquis Querquernis-Compostela
- Os Baños640 m awayEntrimo-Bande · Bande-Entrimo (pola Herdadiña) · IES Aquis Querquernis-Compostela · CEIP Xoaquín Lourenzo Xocas-Facós
Stops on the regional public transport network. A stop being there does not mean a bus runs today: the lines are sorted by how many services they run, and the timetables are on bus.gal ↗.
