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The archeological zone around the Plaza Pallol has a number of things to offer, the most interesting being Ca l´Agapito, once a Dominican convent and school. One of Ca l´Agapito´s later incarnations was as a government storehouse for wheat, hence the name of the square (this is the meaning of the word ´Pallol´ in Catalan). But below this building´s tranquil medieval exterior lies - as so often in

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Under the city of Tarragona lies a huge (3-kilometre long) cave with enormous halls, labyrinths, clear water and a gallery excavated by man. An extensive and complex subterranean cave and cavern system carved by groundwater that make it the greatest underwater lake in Catalonia. The construction of an underground parking in C/Gasòmetre, 32 in 1996 brought this speleological miracle to light. In

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Once upon a time - in the heady days of Rome´s first pagan-turned-Christian emperor, Constantine the Great - the cityscape of the great Roman capitals started to be transformed. Following Rome´s lead, Christian churches, basilicas and residences for bishops were being built in all the major cities. And they were not being built in the city centres, home still to temples and government offices,

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What a strange and fantastical place! Unassuming yet grand. A polar opposite of its extremely mundane surroundings. Looking at the Roman fortifications of Tarragona, I asked myself many times: where did they get the construction materials from to build this gigantic monument? And the answer is: from local quarries, up to 24 of them, the most important and spectacular of which was the quarry of El

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Under the title ´The defence of our heritage is no obstacle to development´, a local weekly newspaper of Tarragona (noticiestgn) published an interview on 11 November with the chairman of the Royal Archeological Society of Tarragona, a venerable institution which for decades now has defended the city´s Roman legacy and has often found itself in the position of having to police and keep a watchful

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The Roman baths of the English town of Bath were largely destroyed in the early Middle Ages and were then rebuilt over various centuries. Yet, that doesn´t prevent the town of Bath to promote and celebrate its thermal spa complex as ´Roman Baths´. The reason being that the building still has Roman foundations, as well as remains of the Roman heating and drainage systems and remains of a temple

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Symbol, together with the amphiteatre and circus, of a true capital of an imperial Roman province, the theatre of Tarraco has not fared well in recent times. The remains of the theatre - a semi-circular space built in the 1st century AD, in the age of Augustus, just outside the defensive walls on the southern slope of the city, between the Colonial Forum and the port - have been the victim of

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Political graffiti marked into the walls of the Antigua Audiencia of Tarragona, one of the city´s emblematic buildings in the heart of the Parte Alta, tells a story of the city during the Spanish Civil War. Who was Largo Caballero? Caballero, a historic leader of the Spanish Socialist Party, was appointed Prime Minister of the Spanish Republic just a few months after General Franco´s attempted

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Not so visible to the first-time visitor to Tarragona is how the medieval and modern city was built on top of the remains of Roman Tarraco and how Roman stone blocks, columns, tombstones and even memorial stones carrying Latin inscriptions from the city´s walls, forums, its circus, its temples, its theatre and amphitheatre and other Roman edifices were creatively re-used by builders over

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In a rather unassuming antiques shop in Tarragona, located on the impressively named Baixada de la Misericordia (´Slope of Mercy´) - a curvy, cobbled, sloping street of barely 100 metres that connects the Plaça de la Font with the Carrer Major and all the way up to the Cathedral - antiquing meets Antiquity with a capital A. Castellarnau Antiguitats is the name of the shop. Castellarnau is the

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With this post I want to open a new series of posts dedicated to secret Tarraco, the remnants of Tarragona´s great monuments that are hidden from the naked eye in homes, cafés and restaurants or that are simply lost in the city´s streets and walls. The tourist guides all point you towards the great musealized sites where you can see what´s left of the amphiteatre, the circus, the theatre and the

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To those fond of hiking, trekking, roaming through the countryside or just curious about discovering new walking routes in and around Tarragona: where to start?The following editorials have published a whole series of Catalan- or Spanish-language guides useful for exploring the region either walking, biking or driving: Cossetania (Azimut collection); Piolet; Prames. Their websites allow you to

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The Tarragona province has a number of exceptional mountain ranges such as the massifs of Montsant and els Ports which are natural parks. The Poblet woodland, part of the mountains of Prades, is also a protected area with the status of natural area of national interest.The Montsant natural park (see top picture) lies in the north of the Priorat comarca and is the natural park closest to those

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You´re visiting the area, you´re tired of seeing the sights and you want to do do something else? What about going to a local festa major (town or village festival), a gastronomic fair, a wildlife observation course, a habaneras competition, a children´s circus, an open-air theatre performance, an antiques market, tango classes, a night-time classical concert, street theatre, a wine-tasting

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´A fête worse than death´ is the last thing that can be said about the folkloric festivals and feasts in and around Tarragona. There is such an enormous variety, great and small, modern and traditional, low-impact and high-impact, musical and gastronomical, religious and pagan, winter and summer, that everyone will find some event they like. The province´s tourist service publishes a guide of all

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For a listing of the best agrobotigas or farm shops of the region, with the widest range of locally produced foods, drinks and other natural produce, check out the following government website dedicated to agriculture and food.Here you´ll find addresses, websites (not all of them have websites though) and a sampling of what they have on sale. They are by and large located in the countryside, in

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An unmistakeable marker in the landscape of Tarragona and its surrounding comarcas (portrayed above in an early 20th-century painting by Joaquin Mir, a lover of the local landscape in and around l´Aleixar and Alforja) is the hazelnut plantation. An amazing 90% (!) of all Spanish-grown hazelnuts are produced on the small hazelnuts farms - thousands of them - of this region, especially in the

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600 years after Samuel Cavaller left Falset, one of his descendants, Marcos Caballero, an 80-year old Jewish engineer returns to the city. Samuel Cavaller left Catalonia, as would so many Sephardic Jews in the course of the 15th century; his son, Salomon Cavaller, living in Cervère, France eventually settled in Tessaloniki, Greece; the family later resettled in Smirna, Turkey; and from there the

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Far less known than the Jews of Girona or Barcelona, the Jewish community of Tarragona is the oldest, going back to Roman times. Under Moorish rule Tarragona was known among Muslims as a Jewish city and Tortosa or Turtūšah in Arabic - a more flourishing place than Tarragona at this time - was the birthplace of great Jewish minds such as Menahem ben Saruk (poet and lexicographer) and Abraham ben

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You can easily while away a lazy afternoon in this place. The National Archeological Museum of Tarragona stores a collection of Roman architectonic and ornamental pieces, epigraphy, sculpture, coinage, mosaics, ceramics and other ordinary domestic objects that is rightly considered one of the richest, if not the richest, of its sort in Spain. The finds come from Tarragona itself and from a

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Sounds like a bad B movie. Yet in late Roman times cities of the dead or necropolises were springing up all over the place. The largest of these burial grounds found by archeologists in Tarragona and its surroundings is the so-called Paleochristian or Early-Christian necropolis along the old Roman road to Valencia. It is said to be not only the largest and most important Early-Christian

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A rather unassuming, smallish site, completely surrounded by housing (some of which rather delapidated) and buried away in the modern city centre far from the romantic Parte Alta of Tarragona, the Colonial Forum in C/Lleida is in fact a place you shouldn´t judge by its cover. This place has seen almost as much history as the city walls of Tarraco, the oldest slice of history still remaining in

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The ghost of Augustus haunts Tarragona. The subject of speculation for centuries, Tarraco´s temple dedicated to this Emperor-God thought to be buried underneath the Romanesque-Gothic Cathedral of Tarragona is slowly revealing its secrets. Its exact location and characteristics have long remained shrouded in mystery. According to most specialists, the steps leading up to the cathedral were built

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As the capital and biggest city of Hispania Citerior and as a model city for subsequent capital cities established by Rome, Tarraco was endowed with major public buildings. The centre of government power was the Provincial Forum which began to be constructed ca. 70 AD, under the Flavian dynasty, on an artificial terrace between the imperial temple (where one can now find the cathedral) and the

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Tarraco´s circus, built in the late 1st century, was located right in the middle of the city – very unusual for a building of this kind – between the Via Augusta and the Provincial Forum. From the late 5th century onwards the hippodrome was abandoned and over the next centuries the 325-metre-long and 115-metre-wide arena and ascending tiers of seating disappeared under layers of housing. The

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Known as a site of public executions, beast shows and brutal man-to-man fights (with one in five not leaving the place alive) but also as a place of entertainment (with comedy fights, jugglers, music, etc), the amphitheatre of Tarraco, built at the end of the 1st century AD, is spectacular, chosen two years ago as one of the ten wonders of Catalonia. One of the trio of public entertainment

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A three-part, Spanish-language documentary (21 minutes) on Roman Tarraco which offers a virtual trip through the city and its major monuments (the aqueduct, the fortifications, the theatre, the circus, the amphitheatre, the provincial and colonial forums, the Via Augusta, the triumphal arch of Barà, the tower of the Scipios). An illuminating introduction for anyone keen on making sense of the

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These are the ´murallas´ or in plain English the ´city walls´. What´s been preserved of Tarraco´s Roman fortifications - and in an excellent state - are the kilometre-long walls surrounding the oldest part of the city. This is definitely the most fabulous monument of the city, especially at nighttime. The best preserved section of the walls is part of what is called the Archeological Promenade:

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Of the 15 kilometres there is still a small stretch left. What am I talking about? The Roman aqueduct of Les Ferreres of course. Or, what the locals call the Devil´s Bridge (Puente del Diablo). Less well-known than the aqueduct of Segovia, the 217-metre-long remains of this water channel that served the booming Roman city of Tarraco are hidden away, some 4 km from the city, crossing a small

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Much of the province of Tarragona was for four centuries under Moorish rule, with the last Muslim bastion - Siurana - being ´reconquered´ by the Christian counts of Barcelona and the Knights Templar in 1153. In this ´new´ Catalonia, Romanesque churches (or rather, Romanesque-Gothic churches) were built on the site of old mosques or even older Visigothic rubble. And Moorish castles refurbished to

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A fantastic experience, for great and small. To find out the truth behind Roman priests, aristocrats, Venus, legionaires, gladiators, station-masters, papyrus makers, physicians, pan flute players, the ´Earth Mother´ Demeter, cavalry horses, catapults, wines, fishing, Carthaginian pie, jewelry, cosmetics, frescoes, the cosmic mysteries of the Mithras-cult and an endless list of other things

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Spirituality is definitely back on the agenda of the 21st century. Even the old (and especially the oldest) monasteries are creeping into the newspaper headlines. Which brings me to the Delos Initiative whose agenda is to help secure the sanctity and biodiversity of sacred natural sites in developed countries across the world. Sprung from the World Commission on Protected Areas of the

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The Tarragona-based annual Roman festival ´Tarraco Viva´ returns. Now in its 11th edition and having become one of the most important of such festivals in Europe, ´Tarraco Viva´ launches almost 300 different events over 14 days (18-31 May) for the large public, Roman history freaks as well as professionals in the field, all done with the best possible didactic taste and drawing 1,000s of

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Destroyed by various forces of history such as the Visigoths, Moorish conquerors, Napoleon and centuries of neglect, destruction and creative re-use of stones, blocks and treasures from former buildings and ruins, Tarragona´s former, Roman self can still be seen in all its glory in the historical Part Alta of the city, storehouse of Roman and medieval monuments. Removed from it, there lies the

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The Tarragona-based Catalan Institute of Classical Archeology, in collaboration with the Tarragona city council, has published an inventary of all 843 (!) archeological interventions that have taken place in Tarragona from the end of the 19th century to 2004. Extremely detailed maps and descriptions of all archeological dig-ups. The large Roman monuments of the bi-millenial city have largely been

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The austere, majestic monastery of Poblet – since 1991 a World Heritage site - is one of the most important, largest, most complete and most perfect medieval monastic complexes that exists in Europe. Poblet has also served as a massive military complex, and as a royal palace, residence and pantheon.Lying midway between Tarragona and Lleida, in the comarca of the Conca de Barbera, the old

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Porrera: one of many hidden gems in the Priorat region, waiting to be polished. 400-odd inhabitants. The village´s fame to glory are its sundials, most of which date back to 1840-1880. A symbol also of former days of prosperity. Up to the 19th century this and many other small Priorat villages were relatively rich communities. After the great wine blight (the phylloxera epidemic) in the early

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The wife of an anti-Francoist Republican prisoner tries to give Franco a letter - Tarragona, Plaça de la Font, 1949. Most likely a staged photograph. Soldiers, priests, falangists, local officials and local devotees, all playing their part in the Franco play. This picture was included in the photographic collection entitled ´Photography in Spain´ from 1999. Franco and Tarragona...what is left of

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With Summer approaching and holiday plans being made, keep an eye on the ever-growing number of offers of Ryanair, Europe´s third largest airline. Ryanair operates or will operate from June/July 2009 flights to Reus - the heart of the Costa Dorada and the Tarragona province and the company´s fifth hub in Spain - from a wide range of places: Beauvais (Paris), Dublin, Birmingham, Glasgow,

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Almost one-quarter of the best Spanish wines in Robert Parker´s world-known ´Wine Advocate´ listing are from DO´s (Denominación de Origen - in English, ´Protected designation of Origin´) located in the Tarragona province: 10 wines from the DO Montsant, 7 DO Priorat and 5 DO Terra Alta. These singular wines have now, after many years, reached the big league of top wines. Only one other Spanish DO

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Tau or the letter ´T´ in the Greek alphabet has been associated with the city of Tarraco/Tarragona since early Christian times. It is still the logo of the Archbishopric of Tarragona nowadays. In the Roman imperial era the imperial temple of Tarraco was the seat of the cult of the Emperor on the Iberian peninsula, then in late-Roman times it became the headquarters of Christianity on the Iberian

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Southern Catalonia is home to a growing number of wind farms dotting the landscape, 17 at the moment. One example is the wind farm of Trucafort, on the Mola de Colldejou, part of the mountain range separating the Baix Camp from the Priorat. Ninety-one giants of 50 metres high. Follow the T322 leading from Colldejou to Torre de Fontaubella and halfway (between km 17 and 18) you´ll find a private

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Nature, nature parks and landscapes are finally more and more appreciated now as a huge asset in this part of Catalonia. Still, the great writers, poets and photographers who have immortalized these natural treasures have not really caught the imagination yet of the outsider. What of the great stories and myths that inhabit these landscapes? You´ll look in vain in the official brochures. I don´t

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