★ UNESCO
World Heritage
World Heritage
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Where in the world
Spain
The site
Tarraco, formally Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco, was a Roman port city on the coast of what is now Spain, occupied from about 218 BCE into the early centuries CE. As a provincial capital it grew into one of the leading Roman cities of the Iberian Peninsula. Its surviving walls, forums and public buildings earned Tarraco its place on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Field notes
- civilizations
- Roman
- types
- Port · City
- occupied
- 218 BCE — 700 CE
- country
- Spain
- elevation
- 67 m above sea level
Figures of this place
Laid to rest, born or died at Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco
✶Chronicle
What happened at Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco
- 422 CEBattle of Tarraco