Italica roman city visit

Informazioni generali

Destinazione
Siviglia, Spagna

Il programma nel dettaglio

The Roman city of Italica, located in the Lower Guadalquivir, halfway between Seville (Hispalis) and Alcalá del Río (Ilipa) and very close to the routes that connected with the mining area of Sierra Norte de Sevilla and Huelva played an important strategic role in both political and military, and economically, during the early Roman Empire. Evidence of this is that it came to occupy an area of approximately 52 hectares.



The origins of the Archaeological Ensemble of Italica back to the year 206 BC, when the general Scipio, in the context of the Second Punic War, defeated the Carthaginians at the Battle of Ilipa and established a detachment of legionaries in the Cerro de San Antonio, where there was already a turdetana population from the fourth century BC While the top two communities lived together in this space next to the Guadalquivir, the Roman element soon imposed their social and political ways. In the second half of the first century BCE City acquires municipal statute and, over time, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD), the colony, which is administratively equates to the metropolis.



It was the birthplace of the Emperors Trajan and Hadrian, and point of origin of many of the senators of the time.



Meeting/pick-up point: Italica main entrance. Avda. Extremdura, s/n

Duration: Two hours.

Start/opening time: Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 10am.

Languages: Spanish.

Others: ID card or passport required.