Around the turn of the Age, the legions of the Emperor Augustus decided to convert the enclave known in medieval documents as Los Bañales into an important Roman city, equipped with all the facilities of a city of Rome, probably in an attempt to make the new Roman way of life attractive to the populations located between the colony of Caesar Augusta (Zaragoza) and the ancient Pompelo (Pamplona). The work that has been carried out on the site for the last ten years has shown how intensely the city took off between 12 BC and 96 AD, but it has also highlighted the weakness of many of these communities, which ended their days as fields of ruins just into the 3rd century AD.

Collection: Multimedia

Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity.

Chronology: -

Scope: Secondary Education

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxLOtN_llWY

Resource type: Video

Format: Multimedia

Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)

Abstract: Around the turn of the Age, the legions of the Emperor Augustus decided to convert the enclave known in medieval documents as Los Bañales into an important Roman city, equipped with all the facilities of a city of Rome, probably in an attempt to make the new Roman way of life attractive to the populations located between the colony of Caesar Augusta (Zaragoza) and the ancient Pompelo (Pamplona). The work that has been carried out on the site for the last ten years has shown how intensely the city took off between 12 BC and 96 AD, but it has also highlighted the weakness of many of these communities, which ended their days as fields of ruins just into the 3rd century AD.

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