Tarragona: Tarraco, Gateway to Roman Spain
Catalonia, Spain
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Tarragona: Tarraco, Gateway to Roman Spain
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The Romans developed Tarraco during the Second Punic War and it became the gateway through which they took and held the Iberian peninsula — first Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco, capital of Hispania Citerior, then capital of the province named after it, Hispania Tarraconensis. It stands on a rock 75 to 90 metres above the sea, which earned it the epithet arce potens Tarraco, Tarraco the mighty citadel. The archaeological ensemble went onto the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2000.
Required Activities
1
of 5
Sit in the amphitheatre, built around the turn of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD below the walls and facing straight out to sea
2
of 5
Find the remains of the Roman circus where the chariot races were run — the medieval town grew over and around them, so they sit inside the old quarter now
3
of 5
Walk the archaeological promenade along the top of the Roman walls
4
of 5
Go out to the Pont del Diable, the Ferreres aqueduct — 217 metres long, 27 metres high, two tiers of arches in dry-jointed ashlar, part of a system that brought water 25 kilometres
5
of 5
Find out about castells, the human towers that started at Valls just up the road as the Ball dels Valencians, first documented in 1712 and on the UNESCO intangible heritage list since 2010
Sit in the amphitheatre, built around the turn of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD below the walls and facing straight out to sea
Find the remains of the Roman circus where the chariot races were run — the medieval town grew over and around them, so they sit inside the old quarter now
Walk the archaeological promenade along the top of the Roman walls
Go out to the Pont del Diable, the Ferreres aqueduct — 217 metres long, 27 metres high, two tiers of arches in dry-jointed ashlar, part of a system that brought water 25 kilometres
Find out about castells, the human towers that started at Valls just up the road as the Ball dels Valencians, first documented in 1712 and on the UNESCO intangible heritage list since 2010
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275 XP
Spain country bonus
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Potential total
375 XP
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