Archaeological site · Bracara Augusta
Fonte do Ídolo
Today: Fonte do Ídolo, Braga
- Place
- Bracara Augusta (Braga)
- Kind
- Archaeological site
- Built
- c. 27 BCE to 14 CE
- What remains
- Site or museum
- Visiting
- Open to visit · In a museum
A spring sanctuary carved into a great block of granite in the time of Augustus, at the charge of Celicus Fronto, outside the walls of Bracara Augusta. Its Latin inscriptions dedicate it to Tongoenabiagus, a local god, and to Navia: on the left is a togate figure a little over a metre tall, and on the right a small shrine with a head under a pediment carved with a bird, at whose foot the water still flows. A modern building now covers it, protecting it and serving as an interpretation centre.