Roman Hispania
Tarraco
Today: Tarragona, Spain
- Years
- 218 BCE–409
- Role
- Capital of Hispania Citerior
The oldest Roman settlement in the peninsula, a supply base and winter quarters in the Punic wars and then in the Celtiberian ones. By the 1st century BCE it was already the head of Hispania Citerior, and under Augustus, who wintered here in 27 BCE, it took the name Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco. Pomponius Mela called it the richest port on this coast; the Visigoths took it in 474.
What to see today
- Acueducto de les Ferreres (Acueducto de Tarraco): Aqueduct, 1st century BCE
- Teatro romano de Tarraco (Teatro de Tarraco): Theatre, 1st century BCE
- Circo romano de Tarraco (Circo de Tarraco): Circus, 1st century
- Anfiteatro de Tarraco: Amphitheatre, 2nd century
- Muralla de Tarragona (Muralla de Tarraco): Walls, 3rd to 2nd century BCE