Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco
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How it came to be
Today's Tarragona in north-eastern Spain was the Roman city of Tarraco. It is first mentioned after Gnaeus Scipio landed in Iberia in 218 BC at the start of the Second Punic War. The Scipio brothers fortified the town and set up a military port, and Scipio Africanus later made it his winter base.
In 27 BC Augustus reorganised the provinces and created Hispania Tarraconensis, with Tarraco as its capital. That same year he came to Spain to watch the Cantabrian campaigns and, in poor health, stayed in Tarraco. After his death in AD 14, a temple to him was built in the city in AD 15.
The amphitheatre, the temple precinct and the provincial forum were probably built in the later 1st century. Tarraco became the centre of the imperial cult for all the Iberian provinces. It was inscribed in 2000.
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