Tarragona (Spain).
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Tarragona (Catalan pronunciation: [tərəˈɣonə]) is a city located in the south of Catalonia and east of Spain, by the Mediterranean. It is the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragonès. In the medieval and modern times it was the capital of the Vegueria of Tarragona.
In Roman times, the city was named Tarraco (Ταρρακών) and was capital of the province of Hispania Tarraconensis (after being capital of Hispania Citerior in the Republican era). The Roman colony founded at Tarraco had the full name of Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco.
The Roman ruins of Tarraco have been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Part of the bases of large Cyclopean walls near the Cuartel de Pilatos are thought to pre-date the Romans. The building just mentioned, a prison in the 19th century, is said to have been the palace of Augustus. The 2nd century amphitheatre, near the sea-shore, was extensively used as a quarry after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and but few vestiges of it now remain. A circus, c. 450 m long, was built over in the area now called Plaça de la Font, though portions of it are still to be traced. Throughout the town Latin, and even apparently Phoenician, inscriptions on the stones of the houses mark the meterial used for buildings in the town.
Two ancient monuments, at some little distance from the town, have, however, fared rather better. The first of these is the Aqüeducte de les Ferreres, which spans a valley about 4 km north of the city. It is 217 m (711.94 ft) in length, and the loftiest arches, of which there are two tiers, are 26 m (85.30 ft) high. There is a monument about 6 km along the coast road east of the city, commonly called the "Tower of the Scipios"; but there is no authority for assuming that they were buried here.
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CASTELLANO
Tarragona es una ciudad y municipio del sur de Cataluña, España, capital de la Provincia de Tarragona y de la comarca del Tarragonés. Durante la época medieval y la moderna, fue la capital de la Veguería de Tarragona.
Tarragona debe su nombre a la Tarraco (Colonia Iulia Vrbs Triumphalis Tarraco) de los romanos, que fue primero capital de la Hispania Citerior en la época republicana y de la provincia de la Hispania Tarraconensis durante el Imperio.
El conjunto arqueológico que forman las ruinas romanas de Tarraco fue declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 2000.
El Casco Antiguo, en la parte alta de la ciudad, coincide con el antiguo Fórum Provincial de Tarraco. Está rodeado por la Muralla romana, cuya longitud hacia el siglo III a. C. era de unos 4 km. Sin embargo, en la actualidad sólo se conserva alrededor de 1 km y una puerta adovelada original. El Casco Antiguo, conocido popularmente como "Part Alta", es hoy en día una de las zonas más visitadas tanto por turistas como por autóctonos gracias a la oferta gastronómica y de ocio que éste ofrece.
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