On this route you can relive Zaragoza's Roman past, exploring evocative sites that will take you on a genuine trip back in time.
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Cesaraugusta was surrounded by a wall with as many as 120 towers and walls that were up to 7m metres thick in some parts. The exterior is made of alabaster with limestone ashlars, whilst the interior is of extremely hard mortar (opus caementicium, or Roman concrete). Its towers are semicircular, or ultra-semicircular, with a minimum diameter of 8 metres and a maximum of 13 metres on one of those flanking the western gate.
See more >In 1982-1983, during maintenance work on the Calle San Juan y San Pedro, the remains of a large pool belonging to some Roman public baths were discovered. This find was extented in 1990 with the discovery of latrines belonging to an earlier stage.
See more >The Forum was the very heart of life in a Roman city. It was the main meeting point where the political, administrative, economic and religious life of the city developed.
See more >Withouth any doubt, the theatre was the finest and most popular building in the city. The austerity to be seen today in its walls and foundations bears witness to its grandeur, but not to the ostentatious richnesswith which its rulers endowed it. Fortunately today, archaeological excavations have recovered material traces of its grandeur: fine floors, columns, cornices, sculptural, remains, all showing the careful attention the building received at the height of its existence.
See more >In Roman times, the River Ebro was navigable from Dertosa (Tortosa), where there was a combined sea-river port, up to Vareia (today Logroño), and all along its banks there was busy trade which gave rise to the appearance of river ports in several cities.
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This building was originally conceived by Ricardo Magdalena and Julio Bravo as an Arts Pavilion for the Hispanic-French exhibition of 1908. Located in the Plaza de Los Sitios, the museum is divided into two sections: Archaeology, with collections from prehistory up to the Muslim period, and Fine Art, with works from the 12th century up to the present day.
See more >The new Christian religion was adopted with great roots in Roman Zaragoza; a reflection of this is the great number of victims who suffered martyrdom in the first persecutions of the third century, when the city was already an Episcopal see. The Hieronymite monastery of Santa Engracia was built in the 15th-16th centuries on the site of the ancient Christian-Roman necropolis, where the two marble sarcophagi that are now kept in its crypt were found: the Receptio Animae and the Petrine Trilogy, dating from the 4th century.
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