Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco World Heritage Site

Official name

Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco | UNESCO

Country

Spain | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

Province of Tarragona, Autonomous Community of Catalonia,
41.1147° Lat, 1.2593° Lon | Map

Code

875

Time Zone

Europe/Madrid (CET, +0100)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 2000. Tarraco (modern-day Tarragona) was a major administrative and mercantile city in Roman Spain and the centre of the Imperial cult for all the Iberian provinces. It was endowed with many fine buildings, and parts of these have been revealed in a series of exceptional excavations. Although most of the remains are fragmentary, many preserved beneath more recent buildings, they present a vivid picture of the grandeur of this Roman provincial capital.