* [[El Oso, Ávila|El Oso]] (example nicknamed "El oso" (''the bear'') and gives name to the town)
* [[San Miguel de Serrezuela]] (currently in ''El Torreón de los Guzmanes'' in the city of Ávila)
* [[San Miguel de Serrezuela]] (today in ''El Torreón de los Guzmanes'' in the city of Ávila)
* [[Santa María del Arroyo]] ([[Verraco of Santa María del Arroyo]])
* [[Santa María del Arroyo]] ([[Verraco of Santa María del Arroyo]])
* [[Santo Domingo de las Posadas]] (1 example)
* [[Santo Domingo de las Posadas]] (1 example)
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* [[Villatoro]] (3 examples)
* [[Villatoro]] (3 examples)
* [[Vicolozano]], Ávila
* [[Vicolozano]], Ávila
=== Province of Salamanca ===
* [[Ciudad Rodrigo]] (2 examples, one of them from Gallegos de Argañán)
* [[Gallegos de Argañán]] (one today in the Museum of [[Salamanca]] and other in the Casa de la Cultura in [[Ciudad Rodrigo]])
* [[Juzbado]]
* [[Larrodrigo]]
* [[Ledesma, Castile and León|Ledesma]]
* [[Lumbrales]] (2 verracos)
* [[Masueco]] (today in the Museum of [[Salamanca]])
* [[Monleón]]
* [[Puente del Congosto]]
* [[La Redonda]] (today in the Museum of [[Salamanca]])
* [[Salamanca]] (the [[Verraco of the bridge, Salamanca|verraco of the bridge]] cited in ''[[El Lazarillo de Tormes]]'' next to the [[Roman bridge of Salamanca|Roman bridge]] and several examples in the Museum)
* [[San Felices de los Gallegos]]
* [[Santibáñez de Béjar]]
* [[Tabera de Abajo]]
* [[Yecla de Yeltes]] ([[Castro de Yecla la Vieja]], today in the Aula arqueológica)
=== Province of Segovia ===
* [[Segovia]] (2 ejemplares: un toro y un jabalí; actualmente en el Museo Provincial).<ref name="escultura_segoviana">{{cita libro | apellidos = MARTÍN| nombre = José Luis| título = La escultura segoviana| año = 1992| ubicación = Segovia| isbn = 84-606-0909-X| páginas = 231-235}}</ref>
* [[Coca (Segovia)|Coca]] (3 ejemplares: dos frente al arco de la Villa<ref name="escultura_segoviana"></ref> y uno incrustado en los muros del [[Castillo de Coca|castillo]]).
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* [[La Puebla de Montalbán]]. One example, found in 2006 and placed in the Museum "La Celestina".<ref>{{Cite web| author= City Council of La Puebla de Montalbán| year= 2010| title= El VII aniversario del Museo ‘La Celestina' acercará al público el verraco encontrado en La Puebla| url= http://www.pueblademontalban.com/ayto/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=448&Itemid=62| fechaacceso= 26 de mayo de 2010}}</ref>
* [[Castillo de Bayuela]] 2 examples. Located in the Plaza de San Antonio and in almost perfect condition.
*[[Talavera de la Reina]]. Known as «cabeza del moro» to be embedded in a wall and only see the head.
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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