Roman Hispania
Capara
Today: Oliva de Plasencia, Spain
- Years
- 74–409
A Vettonian town on the edge of Lusitanian country, which Rome first left as a stipendiary city: it paid a levy and gave soldiers, but kept its own law, its coinage and its land. From the year 74, under Vespasian's Edict of Latinity, it was a municipium of Latin right, and from that moment its urban growth begins, and the four-sided arch that is its emblem. The Vía de la Plata crosses it north to south.
What to see today
- Ciudad romana de Cáparra (Capara): Archaeological site, c. 74 to 300