ROMAN HISPANIA

ROMAN HISPANIA:

                ROMAN TIMES:
                                 -  Two thousand years ago,  the Romans defeated the Carthagnians   and                                      conquered the Iberian Península.  Romans called it  HISPANIA.
                                 -  They spoke LATIN.
                                 -  SENECA  was a philosopher.
                                 -  TRAJAN AND HADRIAN were emperors.
                                 -  Hispania was Roman for  600 years.

               ROMAN CITIES:
                                 -  TARRACO
                                 -  SAGUNTO
                                 -  HISPALIS
                                 -  EMERITA AUGUSTA (now MÉRIDA,  the city where we live)


              ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
   -  TEMPLES
DIANA TEMPLE Building belonging to the city municipal forum. It is one of the few religious character which is preserved in a satisfactory state. Despite its name, wrongly assigned in their discovery, the building was dedicated to the imperial cult. ROMAN THEATRE The theater is a construction promoted by the consul Agrippa Vipsanio. According date written on the theater itself its construction occurred in the years 15 to 16 a. C. ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE Construction popular taste over the theater, was opened at 8 a. C. This building was intended for gladiatorial combats between beasts and men and beasts. ROMAN CIRCUS With its 400 m long and 30 m wide, was the one who enjoyed the favors of a given audience excitement that educated plays. Due to its size was outside the city walls, next to the road that linked Emerita in Corduba (Cordova) and Toletum (Toledo). BRIDGE GUADIANA It can be considered somehow as the origin of the city and in any event, which marks its en ROMAN HISPANIA   (Beatriz)

A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur. (Jorge)

 Building belonging to the city municipal forum. It is one of the few religious character which is preserved in a satisfactory state. Despite its name, wrongly assigned in their discovery, the building was dedicated to the imperial cult.( Beatriz)

                           
   -  THEATRES

   The theater is a construction promoted by the consul Agrippa Vipsanio. According date written on the theater itself its construction occurred in the years 15 to 16 a. C.

 (Beatriz)








 
 -  AMPHITHEATRES

  

                            
 Construction popular taste over the theater, was opened at 8 a. C. This building was intended for gladiatorial combats between beasts and men and beasts. (Beatriz)


   -  CIRCUSES

 With its 400 m long and 30 m wide, was the one who enjoyed the favors of a given audience excitement that educated plays. Due to its size was outside the city walls, next to the road that linked Emerita in Corduba (Cordova) and Toletum (Toledo). 
(Beatriz)


    -  AQUEDUCTS.

                           

An aqueduct is a water supply or navigable channel constructed to convey water. In modern engineering, the term is used for any system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and other structures used for this purpose. A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur. en ROMAN HISPANIA  (Jorge)

This aqueduct was principal function provide water to the west side of town. The water collection point or caput aquae stood at Proserpina Reservoir, from which arose a winding drive along nearly 12 miles. The beginning, in the vicinity of the dam, driving was done by an underground tunnel, excavated in rock. At the end of that drive, it had to save the river Albarregas, for which they had to build a series of arches (arcuationes), which are the most monumental of the building, which ended in the hill of Calvary, where it appeared the tower of distribution (castellum aquae).
As for the section in which he had to resort to the construction of arches, these are extended 830 meters with a height of 25 meters at the deepest part of the river valley Albarregas. The structure of this section is characteristic of Merida. It is made of sturdy but elegant pillars, in five alternating rows of granite blocks with as many rows of brick. Arches at different heights are linking the pillars, whose core is caementicium opus. The arches are of brick bond, except that saves Albarregas the river, which has the granite voussoirs worked very well. 73 are still the mainstays that have remained more or less damaged.  (Beatriz)


   -  PUBLIC BATH HOUSES.       
SPA Alange

With reforms in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, are now in operation the baths of Roman origin, integrated into a medicinal spa waters, whose high radon content, produces improvements in diseases of the nervous, arthritis, rheumatism and respiratory . the baths are the most important monument and known Alange. Despite being documented prior human presence are the Romans who at the time of Trajan built a spa primitive of which are preserved numerous archaeological remains, including two baths, now restored, one for men and women respectively.
Roman building is a rectangular building which housed two identical chambers circular, which is accessed by a steep stone staircase. (Beatriz)
                                  

 - BRIDGES

 Roman bridges were the first large and lasting bridges built.Roman bridges were built with stone and had the arch as its basic structure en  ROMAN HISPANIA  (ROBERTO)

It can be considered somehow as the origin of the city and in any event, which marks its route being extended one of the main arteries of the colony, the Decumanus Maximus  (Beatriz)