Join this unique route through Baelo Claudia! Discover the secrets of Roman knowledge and techniques hidden among the ruins. Explore the visible and the invisible of this millennial city full of history and mystery.
The Roman Empire equipped the area as a factory to produce salted tuna, Garúm (a delicious sauce), and to obtain makeup. From there, a unique city was born. The chosen site is no longer a mystery: sea inlet, stone quarries, water in the aqueduct, and tuna industry in traps, how do they work? The underground logic of water: aqueducts, cisterns-deposits, lead pipes, Silenos fountains, what are they? Sanitation network to the port. Thermal baths with hot, warm, and cold pools. Sport in the Pilastra of the Doriphorus. The Basilica, the Voting Hall, the Archive-Library, the Hall of the Togates, and the Curia Headquarters. In front of the Tabernae: tapas, wines. Food shopping in the Macelum and the stores of the Documanus Maximus, with wine, oil, or garum. Gods spy in the Temples to the Capital Triad (Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva), and the Egyptian Goddess, Isis. Trajan, from his statues, presides and explains. Roads 2000 years old, Via Augusta, Cadiz to Rome, East to West, from Puerta de Gades to Cateira, crosses Baelo. End of the museum and model: Sundial, Statue of Junia, fishing tools, hunting and domestic life, columns, and capitals.
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Parking de Baelo Claudia, Tarifa