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Itálica
Itálica
The Roman ruins of Itálica in Santiponce can be reached from Sevilla in a little over 10 minutes by heading northwest on the N-630/E-803. The ancient city was founded by General Publius Cornelius Scipio in 206 BC and still feeds off its reputation as a city of firsts: the first Roman town in Spain, the birthplace of Marcus Ulpius Trajan (53-117 AD) and Publius Aelius Hadrian (76-138 AD, shown below), the first Roman Emperors born on the Iberían Peninsula. The site is fairly remarkable; that is, what’s visible of it. The earliest neighborhood, the vetus urbs (old city) established by Scipio with the city’s founding, now rests somewhere beneath the town of Santiponce. The “new” neighborhood, or nova urbs, dates to the second century BC! This is the neighborhood tourists can see. Imagination turns what are mostly the foundations of a street plan into a 2,000-year-old picture. There is a theater to be seen, as well as one of the largest Roman amphitheaters ever to have been built with a capacity of over 20,000 spectators, excavated temples, palaces adorned with mosaics, and walls, always walls.
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