Montgo
MONTGÓ Valencia and Alicante, Spain.
Fortifications on a mountain group that follows the coast from Sagunto to Denia. One of the peaks, the Alto de Benimaquia, was fortified with a wall and six rectangular towers which guarded a large area of the coast; a section 125 m long, dating from the 5th and 4th c. B.C., is still standing. The Pico del Aguila has three stepped walls of the 3d and 2d c. B.C.
BIBLIOGRAPHYH. Schubart et al., Excavaciones en las fortificaciones del Montgó cerca de Denia (Alicante) (1962) MPI; id., “Untersuchungen an der iberischen Befestigungen des Montgó bei Denia (Prov. Alicante),” MadrMitt 4 (1963) 1-85MPI.
J. M. BLAZQUEZ