Balneário romano de São Vicente (Penafiel): projeto de revisão das estruturas construídas e do contexto histórico-arqueológico do sítio

Abstract

We present the proposal and first results of the revisitation project, by an international team, of an unusual archaeological site in the north of Portugal, the Roman medicinal spa of São Vicente (Penafiel), discovered in 1901. The ruins were preserved by the owner of the spa under construction and since that time open to the public, who also had the exceptional monograph published in 1902 by José Fortes, the archaeologist who accompanied the work. More than a century later, new knowledge about Roman thermalism, history and archeology of the southern territory of Callaecia came to underline outstanding interpretation problems, which an approach with new methodology and technical resources will try to clarify, whenever possible using innovative and minimally intrusive techniques.