** [[Bulls of Guisando]], 4 verracos mentioned by [[Cervantes]]. They are protected as a ''sitio histórico'' or [[cultural landscape]].
* [[Salamanca]]
* [[Aldea del Rey Niño]]
* [[Arévalo]] (one example in the Palacio del general Vicente de Río)
** One verraco next to the [[Roman bridge]]. It is mentioned in the sixteenth-century [[picaresque novel]] ''[[Lazarillo de Tormes]]'' as being like a bull:<ref>[http://www.4olin.com/chapter1/three.html] bilingual text</ref>
* [[Ávila, Spain|Ávila]] (14 examples from Tornadizos and 3 found next to [[Adaja|Adaja River]])
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* [[Cardeñosa]] (Castro of [[Las Cogotas]])
Salimos de Salamanca y, llegando a la puente, está a la entrada de ella un animal de piedra que
* [[Chamartín, Ávila|Chamartín]] (5 examples, the best preserved is the [[Verraco of the Castro de la Mesa de Miranda]])
casi tiene forma de toro. El ciego me mandó que llegase cerca del animal y, allí puesto, me
* [[Martiherrero]] (4 verracos)
dijo...</blockquote>
* [[Mingorría]]
* [[Villanueva del Campillo]], [[Ávila (province)]]
* [[Narrillos de San Leonardo]], Ávila
** Two verracos, one of which is possibly the largest of them all (a larger than life-size bull or [[aurochs]], but surviving in an incomplete state).
* [[El Oso, Ávila|El Oso]] (ejemplar apodado "''El oso''" y que da nombre a la población)
* [[San Miguel de Serrezuela]] (currently in ''El Torreón de los Guzmanes'' in the city of Ávila)
* [[Santa María del Arroyo]] ([[Verraco of Santa María del Arroyo]])
* [[Santo Domingo de las Posadas]] (1 example)
* [[Solosancho]] (2 examples, [[Castro de Ulaca]])
* [[El Tiemblo]] (4 examples, the known "''[[Bulls of Guisando]]''")
* [[Tornadizos de Ávila]] (8 examples preserved)
* [[La Torre]] (2 headless verracos in the atrium of the church and other embedded in a wall) {{VT|Verraco de La Torre}}
* [[Villanueva del Campillo]] (2 verracos, one of them the largest in Europe)
* [[Villatoro]] (3 examples)
* [[Vicolozano]], Ávila
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* [[Muelas del Pan]]
* [[San Vitero]]
* [[Toro, Zamora|Toro]]
* [[Villardiegua de la Ribera]]
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===== Province of Cáceres =====
* [[Botija, Cáceres|Botija]] ([[Castro de Villasviejas del Tamuja]], "Tamusia")
* [[Guadalupe, Cáceres|Guadalupe]] (Caserío de Mirabel)
* [[Jaraíz de la Vera]]
* [[Madrigalejo]] (currently in the Archaeological Museum of [[Cáceres]])
* [[Segura de Toro]]
* [[Valdelacasa de Tajo]]
* [[Villar del Pedroso]]
* [[Pasarón de la Vera]] It was possibly destroyed in the 19th century, but still forming part of its coat of arms.
The Spanish word verraco normally refers to boars and the sculptures are sometimes called verracos de piedra (pigs of stone) to distinguish them from live animals. The stone verracos appear to represent not only pigs but also other animals. Some have been identified as bulls, and the village of El Oso, Ávila, named for "the Bear", has a verraco which supposedly represents a bear.
Their dates range from the mid 4th to 1st centuries BC.
There is some similar zoomorphic monument markers in lands of Poland from the same period or older.[citation needed]
Though they were perhaps not confined to a single usage, the verracos were an essential part of the landscape of the Vettones, one of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula. It has generally been assumed from their high visibility in their original open fields surroundings that these sculptures had some protective religious significance, whether guarding the security of livestock or as funerary monuments (some of them bear Latin funerary inscriptions). The verracos are particularly numerous too in the vicinity of the walled Celtiberian communities that Romans called oppida.
Porca de Murça (literally the "Sow of Murça" in Portuguese, although the sculpture appears to represent a boar, i.e. a male rather than a female pig). The name has been taken to designate a red wine of the Douro district.[1]
Verraco head (Portuguese: berrão) displayed in the Marvão Municipal MuseumHead of berrão, with right eye clearly visible, found in the Abegoa area of Marvão. Today in Municipal Museum in Marvão.
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