Archaeological Sites in Spain
City/town/settlement in Spain (92)
Abdera, Spain
Abdera was an ancient Carthaginian and Roman port on a hill above modern Adra on Spain's southeastern Mediterranean coast. Founded by Phoenicians in the 8th century BC, the…
Acci
Acci was an ancient inland city of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the borders of Baetica. Under the Romans, and with the Jus Latinum, it was a colony with the full name of Colonia…
Acinipo
Acinipo was a city about 20 kilometers from Ronda, in the Spanish province of Málaga, believed to have been founded by retired soldiers from the Roman legions more than 2,000…
Alarcos
Alarcos is a small hill and archaeological site located in the Campo de Calatrava region of the Iberian Peninsula. Standing at 675 metres above mean sea level, the hill is made of…
Alcalá de Henares
Alcala de Henares originated as Complutum, a Roman city founded in the 1st century BC near a pre-Roman Carpetanian settlement called Iplacea. With around 10,000 inhabitants, it…
Alicante
The area around Alicante has been inhabited for over 7,000 years. Some of the earlier settlements were made on the slopes of Mount Benacantil. The Carthaginian general Hamilcar…
Almuñécar
Almuñécar is a Spanish city on the Mediterranean coast in the province of Granada. The municipality borders Nerja and is traversed by the Verde river. Archaeological evidence from…
Amaya, Burgos
A hilltop settlement in Sotresgudo, Burgos, northern Spain, with occupation dating to the Late Bronze Age Cogotas I culture. After Roman conquest, a military detachment linked to…
Archaeological Park of Segóbriga
Segóbriga is a former Roman city near Saelices in the province of Cuenca, Spain. It ranks among the most significant archaeological sites of the Spanish Meseta. The archaeological…
Archaeological Site of La Ribera de Algaida
The archaeological site of La Ribera de Algaida or Ribera de Turaniana is located in Aguadulce (Almería), Spain and discovered in 1859. The site is one of the most important human…
Augusta Emerita
Augusta Emerita, also called Emerita Augusta, was a Roman colonia founded in 25 BC in present day Mérida. The city was founded by Roman Emperor Augustus to resettle Emeriti…
Baelo Claudia
Baelo Claudia was an ancient Roman town in Hispania, situated on the shore of the Strait of Gibraltar, 22 km outside modern Tarifa in southern Spain. Originally a fishing village…
Barcelona
The origin of the earliest settlement at the site of present-day Barcelona is unclear. The ruins of an early settlement have been found, including different tombs and dwellings…
Barranc de Gàfols
The Barranc de Gàfols, also referred as Pomeralet, is an archaeological site in Ginestar, Catalonia. It is one of the most important First Iron Age sites in Catalonia, since it…
Bilbilis
Augusta Bilbilis was a Roman municipium in Hispania Tarraconensis, built on Cerro de Bambola near modern Calatayud, Spain. Originally a Celtiberian settlement, it was granted…
Bocchoris - City
Bocchoris was an ancient settlement in northern Majorca near modern Port de Pollenca, dating to c. 1400 BC during the island's Talayotic culture. Under Roman rule after the…
Cabezo Juré
Cabezo Juré is an archaeological site located in Alosno, Andalusia from the 3rd millennium BC. The archaeological excavations have recently revealed the vestiges of an ancient…
Cádiz
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe, Cádiz was founded by the Phoenicians as a trading post. The city was an important trading hub founded to access…
Ca n'Oliver Iberian Settlement and Museum
(6th c. BC) Ca n'Oliver is a large Iberian settlement on a Collserola hilltop overlooking the Vallès region in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain. Inhabited from the 6th…
Cáparra
The Roman ruins of Cáparra lie in the Alagón River valley in northern Extremadura, Spain. Once a municipality of Roman Lusitania within the Conventus Iuridicus Emeritensis, it was…
Carmona, Spain
Carmona is a town in Seville province, southwestern Spain, situated 33 km north-east of Seville on a ridge overlooking Andalusia's central plain.
Cartagena, Spain
Cartagena is a city in southeastern Spain with over 2,300 years of history. Founded around 227 BC by Carthaginian general Hasdrubal the Fair as Qart Hadasht, it became a major…
Carteia
Carteia was a Phoenician and Roman town at the head of the Bay of Gibraltar in Spain. It was established at the most northerly point of the bay, next to the town of San Roque,…
Castell de la Fosca
Castell de la Fosca or Punta del Castell is an ancient Iberian settlement or oppidum sited on a rocky promontory at the north end of the beach called Platja de Castell, about 2…
Castellet de Banyoles
The name "Castellet de Banyoles" comes from the 12th century castle built in the south-western corner of the site. The site is located about 7 km from the modern town of Tivissa,…
Castellón Alto
Castellón Alto is an Argaric culture archaeological site located in Galera, Granada and dated between 1900 and 1600 BE during the Bronze Age. The inhabited area was located on…
Castro de Borneiro
Castro de Borneiro is an archeological site in Galicia, Spain. A castro is an iron-age walled settlement, or oppidum, and the site is an example of remnants of the Castro culture…
Castro of Santa Trega
The Castro of Santa Trega is an archaeological site on the hillsides of Mount Santa Trega, in the southwestern Galician municipality of A Guarda. The site is strategically located…
Castulo
Castulo was an ancient Iberian settlement in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, Spain, near modern Linares, occupied from the Neolithic period. By the 6th century BC, it served as…
Celsa - Roman City
Celsa was an important pre-Roman and Roman city located near the modern town of Velilla de Ebro, Aragon, Spain. Celsa was originally an Iberian settlement, called Kelse, of the…
Cerro del Bu
The Cerro del Bu is an archaeological site in the Bu hill of the Spanish municipality of Toledo. The site is located on the hill that gives it its name, which stands on the left…
Cerro del Villar
Cerro del Villar was a Phoenician settlement at the mouth of the Guadalhorce river in southern Spain. Founded in the ninth or eighth century BC, it was abandoned around 584 BC.…
Cieza, Murcia
Cieza is a town in Murcia, Spain, on the Segura River, with archaeological evidence spanning from the Paleolithic through Iberian, Roman, Visigothic, and Arabic periods.…
Clunia
Clunia (full name Colonia Clunia Sulpicia) was an ancient Roman city. Its remains are located on Alto de Castro, at more than 1,000 metres above sea level, between the villages of…
Coca, Segovia
Coca is a municipality in Segovia province, Castile and León, Spain. The settlement flourished during the Roman period as evidenced by archaeological evidence of Roman occupation.
Córdoba, Spain
Ancient Iberian settlement on the Guadalquivir River, later becoming a major Roman city. The site was strategically located on the right bank of the Guadalquivir in the southern…
Dénia
Dénia's historical heritage has been influenced by Iberian, Greek, Roman, Islamic, Napoleonic and Christian civilizations. In the 4th century BC it was a Greek colony of Massalia…
Doña Blanca - Archaeological Site
Doña Blanca is a 200-hectare archaeological tell in El Puerto de Santa María, Spain, near Sidueña, protected as an Asset of Cultural Interest since 1991.
El Argar
El Argar is an Early Bronze Age archaeological site in the municipality of Antas, Almería, Spain, that gave its name to the Argaric culture (2200–1500 BC). Part of the…
El Castillón
El Castillón is an archaeological site located in the Spanish hamlet of Santa Eulalia de Tábara, in the municipality of Moreruela de Tábara, province of Zamora. The site covers an…
Elche
Elche (ancient Ilici) is a city in Alicante, Spain, whose predecessor settlement at L'Alcudia was founded by Greek Ionian colonists from Helike around 600 BC. The site is famous…
Empúries
Empúries (Greek: Emporion) was an ancient Greek city founded in 575 BC by colonists from Phocaea on the Mediterranean coast of Catalonia, Spain. After Hannibal's invasion of Gaul…
Ercavica
Ercavica was an important Roman City whose remains are visible today at the archaeological site. It is situated on the hill of Santaver near Cañaveruelas in Spain. The site of the…
Huelva
Located in southwestern Spain's Andalusia region, Huelva sits at the confluence of the Odiel and Tinto river estuaries on the Atlantic Gulf of Cádiz. Archaeological evidence…
Huéscar
Huescar (Latin: Osca) is a municipality in Granada province, Spain, with settlement evidence spanning over 600,000 years in the surrounding Altiplano area. Under Roman rule, Osca…
Iria Flavia
Iria Flavia or simply Iria in Galicia, northwestern Spain, is an ancient settlement and former bishopric in the modern municipality of Padrón, which remains a Catholic titular…
Italica
Italica was an ancient Roman city in Hispania; its site is close to the town of Santiponce in the province of Seville, Spain. It was founded in 206 BC by Roman general Scipio as a…
Juliobriga
Juliobriga was the most important urban centre in Roman Cantabria, as attested by Pliny the Elder, located at modern Retortillo in the municipality of Campoo de Enmedio, Spain.…
La Almoloya
La Almoloya is an archaeological site in Murcia, the southeast corner of the Iberian Peninsula in modern-day Spain. It is a principal site of study for the Bronze Age Argaric…
La Draga
La Draga is an Early Neolithic lakeshore site (last quarter of the 6th millennium BCE) located in Banyoles and it is the only prehistoric lacustrine site of the Iberian Peninsula.…
Las Cogotas
Las Cogotas is an archaeological site in Cardenosa municipality, province of Avila, Spain. The site was excavated by archaeologist Juan Cabré in the 1920s.
Lebrija
Lebrija is an ancient settlement in the Province of Seville, Andalusia, with human presence dating to the Bronze Age. Lebrija is also the birthplace of Renaissance humanist Elio…
León, Spain
The city's name derives from the Latin Castra Legionis. Archaeological research has revealed remains of two earlier legionary camps beneath the Legio VII fortress. Long sections…
Lleida
Lleida is one of the oldest towns in Catalonia, with recorded settlements dating back to the Bronze Age period. The town became a municipality, named Ilerda, under the reign of…
Llíria
Llíria, known as Edeta in antiquity, was the capital of the Iberian Edetani people, situated on the Tossal de Sant Miquel hilltop. The site is world-renowned for its ceramics…
Los Bañales
Los Bañales is a Roman archaeological site located in the municipality of Uncastillo, in the northwestern part of the province of Zaragoza, Spain. The site consists of a city…
Los Millares
Los Millares is a Chalcolithic occupation site 17 km north of Almería, in the municipality of Santa Fe de Mondújar, Andalucía, Spain. The complex was in use from the fourth…
Málaga
Málaga's history spans about 2,800 years, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe. According to most scholars, it was founded about 770 BC by…
Munigua
Munigua is the site of the Roman city of Municipium Flavium Muniguense, located 8 km from Villanueva del Rio y Minas in Seville province, Spain. Its origins are pre-Roman, and it…
Na Nova
Na Nova is a Spanish Iron Age Talaiotic settlement located on the island of Mallorca. Although its entirety is highly altered, it has been designated a Bien de Interés Cultural.…
Ourense
After the Romans, Ourense was part of the Kingdom of the Suebi during most of the 5th, 6th and 7th centuries and was destroyed by the Moors in 716. It was later rebuilt by Alfonso…
Palencia
Palencia, in Castile and Leon, Spain, occupies the site of ancient Pallantia, chief town of the Vaccaei people, mentioned by Strabo and Ptolemy. The fortified Celtiberian…
Pamplona
Pamplona originated as a Vascones settlement called Iruna before Roman general Pompey established a military camp here circa 75 BC, naming it Pompaelo. Located on the Ab Asturica…
Pintia
Pintia was besieged and destroyed by the Romans, which also buried forever the Vaccean culture, religion, and language. The archaeological excavations conducted in Padilla de…
Poblat de Son Catlar
Son Catlar is a prehistoric settlement on the Balearic island of Menorca, Spain. During the post-Talayotic period (550–123 BC), it was one of the largest settlements on the island.
Poblat Talaiòtic de Talatí de Dalt
Talati de Dalt is a major Talayotic settlement on Menorca, Spain, located approximately 4 km from Mao. Part of the UNESCO World Heritage "Talayotic Menorca" designation, the site…
Ponferrada
Ponferrada is a city in the El Bierzo comarca of Leon province, Spain, originally inhabited by the Astures, a Hispano-Celtic Gallaecian people conquered by Emperor Augustus during…
Puig de sa Morisca Archaeological Park
The Puig de sa Morisca Archaeological Park is located in Santa Ponsa in the municipality of Calvià on the island of Majorca, part of the Spanish autonomous community of the…
Roses, Girona
Roses is a coastal municipality in Catalonia, Spain, situated on the Costa Brava at the northern end of the Gulf of Roses. The city developed into a significant fishing port and…
Ruinas Romanas de Mérida
The ruins of Emérita Augusta, a Roman city founded c. 25 BC by Emperor Augustus to settle veteran soldiers. The site features one of Spain's best-preserved Roman theatre…
Sa Cudia Cremada
Sa Cudia Cremada is the name of an archaeological site located in a land property called in the same way, in the outskirts of the city of Mahón, the capital of Menorca. The…
Sagunto
Sagunto, known in antiquity as Saguntum, is an ancient Iberian and Roman city in the Valencia province of eastern Spain. Originally settled by the Edetani tribe who called it…
Salou
Salou is an ancient coastal settlement on Catalonia's Costa Daurada, first inhabited by Iberians before becoming a Greek-established port in the 6th century BC. Under Roman rule,…
Sanisera
The archaeological site of Sanisera is located in the natural port of Sanitja, next to the Cavalleria Cape or Cap de Cavallería. The first written source that makes reference to…
Sant Martí d'Empúries
Sant Martí d'Empúries is an ancient settlement in Catalonia, Spain, located in the town of L'Escala beside the ruins of Empúries (Empòrion).
Segeda
Segeda is an ancient settlement, between today's Belmonte de Gracián and Mara in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. Originally it was a Celtiberian town, whose inhabitants,…
Segobriga
Segóbriga was an important Celtic and Roman city, and is today an impressive site located on a hill near the present town of Saelices. Research has revealed remains of important…
Seville
Seville's origins trace to the 8th-7th century BC, when Phoenician merchants established a trading post called Ispal on an island in the Guadalquivir River, strategically…
Sexi - Phoenician Colony
Sexi, also known as Ex, was a Phoenician colony at the present-day site of Almuñécar on southeastern Spain's Mediterranean coast. The Roman name for the place was Sexi Firmum…
Son Ferrer
Son Ferrer in Calvia, Mallorca, contains a stepped turriform monument with occupation spanning from the Early Bronze Age (c. 1800 BC) through the Late Iron Age. The monument was…
Son Oleza
The prehistoric site of Son Oleza is a prehistoric "Beaker culture" dolmen and associated settlement site on the Spanish island of Mallorca. It is near to the village of…
Talayotic Settlement of Torrellisar
The Talayotic settlement of Torrellisar is located near Alaior in Menorca, along the road to Cala en Porter. Though much altered by centuries of farming, the site retains a…
Tarazona
Located on the river Queiles, a tributary of the Ebro, Tarazona was an important regional centre of ancient Rome, known as Turiaso, located around 60 kilometres from Bilbilis. The…
Tarragona
The real founding date of Tarragona is unknown. During the Roman Republic, the city was fortified and much enlarged as a Roman colony by the brothers Publius Cornelius Scipio and…
Tiermes Archaeological Site
An ancient Celtiberian and Roman city in Montejo de Tiermes, Soria, carved dramatically into red sandstone cliffs and sometimes compared to a Spanish Petra. Originally an Arevaci…
Toledo, Spain
Toledo is a UNESCO World Heritage city (1986) situated on the Tagus River in central Spain, with over 2,000 years of continuous habitation. Conquered by Rome in 193 BCE, it became…
Tolmo de Minateda
Tolmo de Minateda is a multi-period archaeological park in Hellin, Albacete, Spain, occupying a 7-hectare rocky promontory at a strategic crossroads between the Meseta Central and…
Ulia
Ulia Fidentia or simply Ulia was a Roman municipium in the province of Hispania Baetica. The site is the location of the current city of Montemayor. During the Second Hispanian…
Uxama Argaela
Uxama Argaela was a Celtiberian, and subsequently Roman, city located on El Castro hill, overlooking the present town of El Burgo de Osma in Soria. The city covers two plateaus…
Valencia
Valencia is a historic city on the east coast of Spain on the banks of the Turia. Today it serves as the capital of the Valencian autonomous community and province, with a…
Valeria, Spain - Roman City
Valeria was an important Roman city founded between 93 and 82 BC by proconsul Gaius Valerius Flaccus, located at 1,000 metres elevation between the Gritos and Zahorra river gorges…
Zafarraya
Zafarraya is known for a Neanderthal mandible found in a cave in 1983 by Cecilio Barroso and Paqui Medina. The mandible has been dated to 30,000 years Before Present (BP), and at…
Cave Structures in Spain (24)
Abrigo de la Quebrada
The Abrigo de la Quebrada is an archaeological site in the municipality of Chelva, in the Spanish Province of Valencia, ca. 65 km northwest of the city of Valencia. It shows…
Archaeological Site of Atapuerca
The archaeological site of Atapuerca is located in the Province of Burgos in the north of Spain and is notable for its evidence of early human occupation. Among numerous faunal…
Atapuerca Mountains
The Atapuerca Mountains is a karstic hill formation near the village of Atapuerca in the province of Burgos, northern Spain. Rich fossil deposits and stone tool assemblages have…
Axlor
Axlor is a prehistoric archeological site in the village of Dima in Biscay in the Autonomous Basque Community of Spain, dating from the Middle Paleolithic or Mousterian period.…
Cave del Valle, Cantabria
Cave del Valle (Spanish: Cueva del Valle, The Valley's Cave), locally also known as La Viejarrona (Old Girl), is located near El Cerro Village in the municipality of Rasines in…
Cave of Altxerri
The Cave of Altxerri is located in the municipality of Aya in the Basque Country. The original grotto preserves rock paintings and engravings which have been dated from the end of…
Cave of Bacinete
The Cave of Bacinete (Cueva de Bacinete) is located in Los Alcornocales Natural Park near Los Barrios in Andalusia, southern Spain. It contains prehistoric rock art depicting…
Cave of Bedmar
The Cueva de Bedmar is an archaeological site in the Magina mountain range natural park near Bedmar, Jaen province, Spain, with occupation spanning from the Middle Paleolithic to…
Cave of El Soplao
El Soplao is a cave in Cantabria, Spain, discovered in 1908 by miners working the La Florida zinc and lead mine. Spanning approximately 27 km in length, it contains the most…
Cave of El Toro
The Cave of El Toro (Cueva del Toro) lies at 1,190 m elevation in the El Torcal de Antequera natural reserve near Malaga, Andalusia. It preserves a rich Early and Late Neolithic…
Cave of Los Aviones
The Cave of Los Aviones, located at sea level near Cartagena in southeastern Spain, is a paleontology site dating back to the Middle Paleolithic era. It is famous for having…
Cave of the Guanches
The Cave of the Guanches, or Archaeological area of the Cave of the Guanches, is an important archaeological site located in the north of the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands,…
Cova Foradà
Cova Foradà (or Cova Foradada) is an archaeological site consisting of a cave with remains of Neanderthals near Oliva, in the Province of Valencia, Spain. The most complete…
Cova Negra
Cova Negra is an archaeological site near the town of Xàtiva in the Province of Valencia with remains that show sporadic and short-term occupation by Neanderthals in the…
Cueva Antón
Cueva Antón is a paleoanthropological and archeological site in the Region of Murcia of southeast Spain. The cave is located about 60 kilometers from the Mediterranean port city…
Cueva de Bolomor
Cueva de Bolomor, or Bolomor Cave, is an archaeological site near Tavernes de la Valldigna in the Valencian Community, Spain. It was occupied over a long period of time, between…
El Mirón Cave
The El Mirón Cave is a large cave in the upper Asón River valley towards the eastern end of Cantabria in northern Spain. It is an archeological site in Ramales de la Victoria. It…
Hypogeum of Cala Sant Vicenç
The Hypogeum of Cala Sant Vicenç is a set of caves in Cala Sant Vicenç, on the Spanish island of Mallorca. It dates back to the Bronze Age (1,700—1,500 BC). Today, eight caves are…
Roca dels Moros
The Roca dels Moros or Caves of El Cogul is a rock shelter containing paintings of prehistoric Levantine rock art and Iberian schematic art. The site is in El Cogul, in the…
Santimamiñe Cave
Santimamine Cave in Kortezubi, Biscay, is one of the most important archaeological sites in the Basque Country, with a nearly complete occupation sequence from the Middle…
Sidrón Cave
The Sidrón Cave is a non-carboniferous limestone karst cave system located in the Piloña municipality of Asturias where Paleolithic rock art and the fossils of more than a dozen…
Sima de las Palomas
Sima de las Palomas is a cave shaft on Cabezo Gordo in the Murcia region of Spain, inhabited for tens of thousands of years by Neanderthals and other hominins. The shaft was…
Simanya Cave
Simanya Cave or Great Simanya Cave is a cave in the Sant Llorenç del Munt massif located in the municipality of Sant Llorenç Savall, in Vallès Occidental. It has a route of 372 m…
Tito Bustillo Cave
The Tito Bustillo Cave is a prehistoric rock shelter located in the small town of Ribadesella, in the autonomous community of Asturias. The cave was inhabited by humans before the…
Reservoir/aqueduct/canal in Spain (17)
Alcantarilla Dam
The Alcantarilla Dam is an ancient Roman gravity dam built to supply water to the Roman city of Toletum, in the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis. It was constructed in the…
Almonacid de la Cuba Dam
The Almonacid de la Cuba Dam is a Roman gravity dam on the Aguasvivas River in Almonacid de la Cuba, Zaragoza province, Aragon, Spain, dating to the 1st century AD. Construction…
Aqueduct of Segovia
The Aqueduct of Segovia is a Roman aqueduct in Spain, built around the first century AD to channel water from springs in the mountains 17 kilometres to Segovia's fountains, public…
Caños de Carmona
The Caños de Carmona is a Roman aqueduct built during the first century BC to supply water from a spring in the ancient Roman city of Irippo –current Alcalá de Guadaíra– to the…
Cave of Hercules
The Cave of Hercules is a subterranean vaulted space dating back to Roman times located in the alley of San Ginés in the city of Toledo. The cave is under a building located where…
Cornalvo Dam
The Cornalvo Dam is a Roman gravity dam built to supply water to the Roman colonia of Emerita Augusta, capital of the Roman province of Lusitania. It was built in the 1st–2nd…
Ermita de la Virgen del Pilar Dam
The Ermita de la Virgen del Pilar Dam was a Roman gravity dam located in Monforte de Moyuela, Teruel province, Aragon, Spain. The few surviving remains have enabled archaeologists…
Esparragalejo Dam
The Esparragalejo Dam was a Roman multiple arch buttress dam located in Esparragalejo, Badajoz province, Extremadura, Spain. Built in the 1st century AD during the early Roman…
Iturranduz Dam
A Roman buttress dam complex in Navarra, Spain, consisting of two dams dating to the 2nd and 3rd-4th centuries AD respectively. The structure featured a notably thin 0.9 m dam…
La Pared de los Moros
La Pared de los Moros was a Roman gravity dam in Teruel province, Aragon, Spain, dating to the 3rd century AD. The remnants of the dam are located in the bed of the Farlán stream,…
Les Ferreres Aqueduct
Les Ferreres Aqueduct is composed of two levels of arches: the upper section has 25 arches, and the lower one has 11. All arches have the same diameter of 20 Roman feet (5.9m)…
Muel Dam
The Muel Dam was a Roman gravity dam in Zaragoza province, Aragon, Spain, dating to the 1st century AD. The resulting reservoir in Muel, fed by the Huerva River, was created…
Proserpina Dam
The Proserpina Dam is a Roman gravity dam built to supply water to the Roman colonia of Emerita Augusta –present-day Mérida, Spain–, capital of the Roman province of Lusitania. It…
Puy Foradado Dam
The Puy Foradado Dam was a Roman gravity arch dam on the Rio Riguel in Zaragoza province, Aragon, Spain, dating to the 2nd or 3rd century AD. Part of the Los Banales hydraulic…
Roman Aqueducts of Toledo
Remains of two Roman aqueducts that supplied the city of Toletum (modern Toledo) in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The main aqueduct was a 38-kilometre canal fed by a 21-metre-high dam…
Roman Vaults of Nuncio Viejo
Located beneath Calle Nuncio Viejo, these Roman vaults consist of a system of walls and barrel vaults dating to the Roman era according to archaeological studies. They sit near…
San Lázaro Roman Aqueduct
The San Lázaro Roman aqueduct is a Roman aqueduct in the Roman colonia of Emerita Augusta –present-day Mérida, Spain–, capital of the Roman province of Lusitania. It was built…
Rock art in Spain (17)
Cave of Altamira
The Cave of Altamira is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria. It is renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and…
Cave of Ardales
The Cave of Ardales (Cueva de Ardales) in Malaga province was revealed by an earthquake in 1821. It contains over 1,000 paintings and engravings on walls, ceilings, and…
Cave of Chufín
The cave of Chufín is located in the town of Riclones in Rionansa, Spain. In Chufín were found different levels of occupation, the oldest being around 20000 years old. The small…
Cave of El Castillo
The Cave of El Castillo in Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, was discovered in 1903 by Hermilio Alcalde del Rio. Part of the Caves of Monte Castillo complex, it contains the oldest known…
Cave of La Pasiega
Cueva de La Pasiega, or Cave of La Pasiega, situated in the Spanish municipality of Puente Viesgo, is one of the most important monuments of Paleolithic art in Cantabria. The…
Cave of Maltravieso
The Cave of Maltravieso in Caceres, Extremadura, was discovered in 1951 when a quarry explosion exposed the cavity. It contains 71 hand stencils created by blowing pigment around…
Caves in Cantabria
The Cantabrian caves contain some of Europe's oldest known cave art, with paintings dating back to at least 40,800 BC during the Upper Paleolithic period. The caves feature animal…
Caves of Monte Castillo
A complex of karstic caves on the slopes of Monte Castillo in Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008 under 'Cave of Altamira and…
Caves of Nerja
The Caves of Nerja are a series of caverns close to the town of Nerja in the Province of Málaga, Spain. The caves were re-discovered in modern times on 12 January 1959 by five…
Cueva de los Casares
Cueva de los Casares is a cave in Riba de Saelices, Guadalajara, Spain, discovered in 1933. It contains Paleolithic cave paintings, most notably depicting what some scholars argue…
Cueva de los Murciélagos
Cueva de los Murcielagos is a cave system in the Sierras Subbeticas near Zuheros, Cordoba, Spain. Evidence of human occupation reaches back 35,000 years to the Middle…
Cuevas de la Araña
The Coves de l'Aranya (in original Catalan language, known in English as the Spider Caves and in Spanish Cuevas de la Araña) are a group of caves in the municipality of Bicorp in…
La Garma Cave Complex
The La Garma cave complex is a parietal art-bearing paleoanthropological cave system in Cantabria, Spain. The cave complex is noted for one of the best preserved floors from the…
Peñas de Cabrera
The archaeological site Peñas de Cabrera, containing numerous rock shelters, is located in the municipality of Casabermeja. In the early 1970s the University of Málaga began…
Praileaitz Cave
The Praileaitz Cave (Basque for Rock of the Monk cave) is located in the municipality of Deba (Gipuzkoa, Basque Country). Early in August 2006, various paleolithic cave paintings…
Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde
Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde is a UNESCO transboundary World Heritage Site spanning the Côa Valley in Portugal and Siega Verde in Spain. The site…
Rock Art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin
A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998, comprising 758 prehistoric rock art sites across eastern Spain -- the largest group in Europe. Spanning six autonomous communities…
Gate/archway/bridge in Spain (15)
Albarregas Roman bridge
The Albarregas Roman bridge is a Roman bridge located in Mérida, Spain. The bridge, which is built of granite, crosses the river Albarregas, a tributary of the Guadiana. It is…
Alcántara Bridge
The Alcántara Bridge is a Roman bridge at Alcántara, in Extremadura. The stone arch bridge was built over the Tagus River between 104 and 106 AD by an order of the Roman emperor…
Alconétar Bridge
The Alconétar Bridge, also known as Puente de Mantible, was a Roman segmental arch bridge in the Extremadura region. The ancient structure, which featured flattened arches with a…
Arc de Berà
The Arc de Berà (sometimes erroneously written Barà) is a triumphal arch some 20 km north-east of the city of Tarragona, Spain, close to Roda de Berà. This monument is part of the…
Arch of Cabanes
(2nd c. AD) The Arch of Cabanes is a Roman triumphal arch built in the 2nd century AD, located approximately 2 km from Cabanes, Spain, on the via Augusta. The arch stands in the…
Pont del Diable
The Pont del Diable, also known as Sant Bartomeu Bridge, is a medieval bridge crossing the river Llobregat and straddling the municipalities of Martorell and Castellbisbal in…
Pont Vell, Santa Eulària des Riu
Pont Vell is the ancient bridge which crosses the Riu de Santa Eulària, the only river on the Spanish island of Ibiza. The bridge stands next to the modern road bridge on the…
Puente de Alcántara
The Puente de Alcántara is a Roman arch bridge in Toledo spanning the River Tagus. The word Alcántara comes from Arabic القنطرة, which means "arch". Located at the foot of the…
Puente Romano, Mérida
The Puente Romano is a Roman bridge over the Guadiana River at Mérida in southwest Spain. The piers are designed to withstand river current as they are rounded on the upstream…
Roman Arch of Medinaceli
The Roman arch of Medinaceli is an ancient Roman triumphal arch located in Medinaceli, in Castile and León. It is constructed in stone using a technique called opus quadratum. It…
Roman Bridge of Córdoba
The Roman Bridge of Córdoba is a historic bridge in the Historic centre of Córdoba, Andalusia, southern Spain, originally constructed in the early 1st century BC across the…
Roman Bridge of Lugo
The Roman bridge of Lugo crosses the Minho river in Lugo, Galicia. The bridge is of Roman origin and has been rebuilt many times in its history. The structure is made primarily of…
Roman Bridge of Salamanca
The Roman bridge of Salamanca, also known as Puente Mayor del Tormes and as Puente Prinçipal (main bridge), is a Roman bridge crossing the Tormes River in the city of Salamanca,…
Roman Bridge of Talamanca de Jarama
A bridge in Talamanca de Jarama, Community of Madrid, Spain. Extensively remodelled in medieval times, the bridge bears 265 mason marks from various construction phases. It no…
Trajan Arch
The Trajan Arch in Mérida, Spain, is a Roman monumental gateway dating to the 1st or early 2nd century AD, likely constructed during or shortly after the reign of Emperor Trajan…
Dolmen in Spain (11)
Antequera Dolmens Site
The Antequera Dolmens Site is a cultural heritage ensemble comprising three cultural monuments (the Dolmen of Menga, Dolmen of Viera and Tholos of El Romeral) and 2 natural…
Cova d'en Daina
Cova d'en Daina is a dolmen located near Romanyà de la Selva, in the municipality of Santa Cristina d'Aro, Catalonia, Spain. The dolmen was built out of granite blocks and is…
Dolmen de Axeitos
Dolmen de Axeitos is a prehistoric megalithic dolmen just to the northwest of the village Axeitos, in the parish of Oleiros, in the municipality of Ribeira, on the Barbanza…
Dolmen de Lácara
The Dolmen del Prado de Lácara is a megalithic passage tomb located northwest of Mérida in Badajoz province, Spain. It is one of the most monumental and well-preserved megalithic…
Dolmen de la Pastora
The Dolmen de la Pastora (also known as Cueva de la Pastora) is a prehistoric passage grave at Valencina de la Concepción near Seville, Spain. It has been dated to the…
Dolmen del prado de Lácara
The Dolmen del prado de Lácara is a megalithic passage tomb located northwest of Mérida in Badajoz province, Spain, beside the EX-214 road connecting Aljucén with La Nava de…
Dolmen de Menga
The Dolmen of Menga is a Neolithic megalithic burial mound near Antequera, Malaga, Spain, built between 3750 and 3650 BC. It is one of the largest megalithic structures in Europe.…
Dolmen de Soto
The Dolmen de Soto is a Neolithic passage tomb in Trigueros, Andalucia, Spain, dated to between 3000 and 2500 BC. Discovered in 1923 by Armando de Soto Morillas and excavated by…
Dolmen de Viera
The Dolmen de Viera or Dolmen de los Hermanos Viera is a dolmen—a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb—located in Antequera, province of Málaga, Andalusia. It is located only 70…
Dolmen Losa de la Mora
The Dolmen Losa de la Mora or of Rodellar is a well-preserved dolmen located in Rodellar, in the municipality of Bierge, in the Sierra de Guara (Huesca, Spain). It is at an…
La Chabola de la Hechicera
The Chabola de la Hechicera is a dolmen in Elvillar, Álava in the Basque Country of Spain. Three large vertical stones support a large horizontal flat stone. Nine large stones…
Archaeological site in Spain (10)
Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco
The Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco in Tarragona, Spain, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. Tarraco was the oldest Roman settlement on the Iberian…
Barranco León
Barranco León is an archaeological site in Orce, Andalusia, Spain with an age range between 1.2 and 1.4 million of years. It is noted for having yielded evidence of hominin…
Colonial Forum of Tarraco
The Colonial Forum of Tarraco was the political, economic, and religious center of the Roman colony of Tarraco (modern Tarragona, Spain), active from the late Republic through the…
El Salt
El Salt is an archaeological site from the Middle Paleolithic near Alcoy, in the Spanish Province of Alicante, which was frequented by groups of archaic humans for thousands of…
Provincial Forum of Tarraco
The provincial forum of Tarraco is a Roman archaeological site in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, encompassing an area of 18 ha. Together with other Roman remains in the city it…
Roca dels Bous - Archaeological Site
Roca dels Bous is an archaeological site located in Sant Llorenç de Montgai, in the Catalan Pyrenees, Spain. Since 1988 the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the UCL…
Roman Fish Salting Factory, Algeciras
The Roman fish salting factory was a salting factory established on the seafront of Algeciras. It belonged to the fishing village of San Nicolás, part of what was called Caetaria.…
Roman Kilns of El Rinconcillo, Algeciras
The Roman kilns of El Rinconcillo were Roman kilns located in the Spanish city of Algeciras. The kilns were discovered in 1966 by archaeologist Manuel Sotomayor, just 300 meters…
Roman Ovens of the Fornaca
The Roman ovens of the Fornaca are ancient Roman structures in the archaeological site of Fornaca at Vilassar de Dalt, Catalonia. They were used for the industrial production of…
Roman Provincial Forum, Mérida
The Roman Provincial Forum is an archaeological area in Mérida, Spain, built in the 1st century AD. It was a public area of the Roman city of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC.…
Residence/villa/farmhouse in Spain (9)
Carranque
Carranque Archaeological Park in Toledo province, Spain, preserves a lavish 4th-century Roman villa complex rediscovered in 1983 when a farmer's plough struck a mosaic. The site…
Els Munts - Roman Villa
A 2nd-century Roman villa located 12 km from Tarraco in Altafulla, Spain, Els Munts is renowned for its exceptionally preserved mosaics. The estate belonged to Caius Valerius…
La Olmeda Roman Villa
The palatial Late Antique Roman villa at La Olmeda is situated in Pedrosa de la Vega in the province of Palencia, near the banks of the Carrión. The agrarian villa was developed…
Naviforme
A naviforme was a prehistoric boat-shaped house built on the Balearic Islands of Spain during the Early Bronze Age or Pretalayotic Period. These large hut-like structures featured…
Roman Villa of Camino de Albalate
Roman villa of Camino de Albalate is a Roman site near Calanda, Teruel, Aragon. The archaeological site, now dismantled, is located in the Albalate orchard area and is one of the…
Roman Villa of Can Llauder
A Roman villa near Mataro (ancient Iluro), Barcelona, discovered in 1961 and declared a National Historic-Artistic Monument in 1964. The villa featured rich marble decoration,…
Roman Villa of Centcelles
The Roman villa of Centcelles is located in the municipality of Constantí, in Catalonia. It contains a masterpiece of Early Christian Art. In one of its rooms, which has been…
Villar de Domingo García
A late Roman villa near the town of Noheda in Cuenca province, Spain, dating from the 3rd to 5th centuries AD. Its triclinium contains one of the largest figural mosaic floors in…
Villa Romana de Río Verde
Villa Romana de Río Verde is a Roman villa on the coast of Marbella, Spain, at the mouth of the Río Verde river. The site represents the pars urbana (residential section) of an…
Necropolis/tombs complex in Spain (8)
Biniai Nou Hypogea
The Biniai Nou hypogea are two Chalcolithic funerary tombs near Mahon on the island of Menorca, Spain. Their chambers are cut into bedrock, while the access corridors were…
Hipogeo de Biniai nou
The Biniai Nou hypogea are two funerary hypogea located in Mahon. These funerary chambers were carved directly into the rock, with their access passages built from vertical stone…
Las Capellanías
Las Capellanías is a prehistoric funerary complex in Cañaveral de León, Huelva, Spain. Excavation in the area began after road construction workers found a stela in June 2018, and…
Mausoleum of the Atilii
The Mausoleum of the Atilii (Spanish: Mausoleo de los Atilios or El altar de los moros, meaning "Altar of the Moors") is a Roman mausoleum dating from 2nd or 3rd centuries AD,…
Naveta Biniac
Naveta d'Es Tudons
The Naveta d'Es Tudons is the largest and best preserved funerary naveta in Menorca. The Naveta d'Es Tudons served as collective ossuary between 1200 and 750 BC. The shape of the…
Necròpolis de Son Morell Nou
Necròpolis de Son Morell Nou (Cala Morell) is a prehistoric burial complex on Menorca, Spain, comprising 14 artificial caves.
Roman Mausoleum of Córdoba
The Roman mausoleum of Córdoba is an ancient structure in the Jardines de la Victoria, Córdoba, Andalusia, southern Spain. The mausoleum is located near the road that connected…
Temple complex in Spain (8)
Cerro de los Santos
Cerro de los Santos is an Iberian religious sanctuary built in the 4th century BCE with evidence of continued use into the Roman period. The site is known for its many votive…
Concordia - Remains of the Roman Temple of Augustus
The Roman Forum was the main public area of Emerita Augusta, founded in 25 BC by Emperor Augustus. The complex was later joined by the Provincial Forum in 50 AD. Together with…
Roman Temple of Alcántara
The Roman temple of Alcántara is located at one side of the Alcántara Bridge, Cáceres, Extremadura. Along with the Roman temple of Vic, it is one of the only two Roman temples…
Roman Temple of Córdoba
(1st c. AD) The Roman temple of Córdoba, discovered in the 1950s during City Hall expansion, stands at the corner of Claudio Marcelo and Capitulares streets. It was possibly the…
Roman Temple of Vic
The Roman temple of Vic is an ancient Roman temple located in the uptown area of Vic, in the heart of Osona, Catalonia. The building dates from the early 2nd century, the golden…
Temple of Augustus, Barcelona
The Temple of Augustus in Barcelona was a Roman temple built during the Imperial period in the colony of Barcino. The temple was the central building on Tàber Hill in the city's…
Temple of Diana
(1st c. AD) The remains of an Ancient Roman temple built in the Roman capital of Lusitania. It is well-preserved, probably due to its incorporation into a palace, the Temple of…
Temple of Hercules Gaditanus
The Temple of Hercules Gaditanus, Temple of Melqart or Temple of Hercules-Melqart was a place of worship in Antiquity in the southern outskirts of Gadir-Gades (current-day Cádiz),…
Megalithic structures in Spain (7)
Archaeological Dolmens of Antequera
An archaeological site comprising three Megalithic monuments—the Menga and Viera Dolmens and the Tholos of El Romeral—built during the Neolithic and Bronze Age out of massive…
Capocorb Vell
Capocorb Vell is a talayotic site located about 12 kilometres from Llucmajor on the island of Mallorca. It is one of the most highly excavated talayotic sites in the Balearic…
Eastern Biniac Naveta
Eastern Biniac is a Bronze Age funerary naveta on Menorca, Spain, dated to 1500-1000 BC, where collective inhumations were practised. The structure has a circular layout with…
Talaiot y Taula de Trepucó
Trepuco is one of the largest Talayotic settlements in Menorca, covering over 4 hectares. Its central talayot measures more than 26 metres in diameter and 8 metres in height,…
Taula
A taula is a megalithic structure on the Mediterranean island of Menorca. These monuments feature a vertical pillar supporting a horizontal capstone, reaching heights of up to 5…
Tholos de El Romeral
Tholos de El Romeral, situated 2.5 kilometres north east of the town of Antequera, is one of the most important examples of early Bronze Age architecture in southern Europe.…
Tholos de Montelirio
Tholos de Montelirio is an archaeological site in Seville Province, Spain, at Valencina de la Concepción. Tholos de Montelirio is closed to the general public, but its objects can…
Theatre in Spain (7)
Roman Theatre, Cádiz
Rediscovered in 1980, only partial excavation has occurred. A visitor centre opened in 2015 with viewing windows onto the remains.
Roman Theatre, Cartagena
The Roman Theatre of Cartagena is a Roman theatre in the Roman colonia of Carthago Nova—present-day Cartagena, Spain. Built between the years 5 and 1 BCE, it had a capacity of…
Roman Theatre, Mérida
Commissioned by consul Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in Emerita Augusta, capital of Roman Lusitania (modern Merida, Spain). The semicircular cavea (86.63 m diameter) seated…
Roman Theatre, Tarraco
The Roman Theatre of Tarraco is a Roman theatre in the Roman colonia of Tarraco –present-day Tarragona, Spain–, capital of the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis. Despite…
Roman Theatre, Zaragoza
The Roman Theater of Zaragoza is a Roman theatre in the Roman colonia of Caesaraugusta –present-day Zaragoza, Spain–, in the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis. The…
Sagunto Roman Theatre
The Roman Theatre of Sagunto, built in the 1st century AD, sits on a hillside terrace below Sagunto Castle in Spain's Valencia province. The theatre remains an active cultural…
Theatre of Clunia Sulpicia
The Theatre of Clunia Sulpicia is a Roman theatre in the ancient city of Colonia Clunia Sulpicia, in what is now province of Burgos, northern Spain. The edifice was built under…
Other sites in Spain (52)
Acueducto de los Milagros
The Acueducto de los Milagros ("Aqueduct of Miracles") is a Roman aqueduct built to carry water from the Proserpina reservoir to the colony of Augusta Emerita (modern Merida,…
Amphitheatre of Mérida
The Amphitheatre of Mérida is a Roman amphitheatre in the Roman colonia of Emerita Augusta –present-day Mérida, Spain–, capital of the Roman province of Lusitania. It was…
Aquis Querquennis
Aquis Querquennis is a Roman fort in Ourense Province, Galicia. It was constructed circa 69-79 AD to house soldiers building the Via XVIII and was occupied by the Legio VII Gemina…
Arlobi Menhir
The Arlobi menhir is an archaeological heritage site located at the Gorbea Natural Park, in Zuia, Álava (Basque part of Spain). It was found by Oier Suárez Hernando, Miguel…
Bulls of Guisando
The Bulls of Guisando (Toros de Guisando) are four granite sculptures on the hill of Guisando in El Tiémblo, Ávila, Spain.
Cancho Roano
Cancho Roano is an archaeological site located in the municipality of Zalamea de la Serena, in the province of Badajoz, Spain. Cancho Roano is the best preserved Tartessian site.…
Castriño de Conxo
Castrino de Conxo is an archaeological site in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, featuring Bronze Age petroglyphs discovered by Ramon Sobrino Buhigas in 1935. The granitic slab…
Castro de A Cidá
Castro de A Cida is an Iron Age hillfort in Ribeira, A Coruna province, Galicia, established over 2,500 years ago by communities of the castrexa (Castro) culture. One of the…
Castro de Achadizo
Castro de Achadizo is an Iron Age coastal castro in the parish of Castro, municipality of Boiro, A Coruna province, Galicia. Occupied primarily between the 6th and 2nd centuries…
Castro de Elviña
Castro de Elvina is an Iron Age hillfort located south of the city of A Coruna, Galicia. Declared a historic monument in 1962, the site features a triple perimeter wall with…
Castro de Porto de Baixo
Castro de Porto de Baixo is an Iron Age archaeological site within the Dunes of Corrubedo Natural Park in Galicia, Spain. It was inhabited between the 4th and 2nd centuries BC,…
Consuegra Dam
The Consuegra Dam is a ruined Roman buttress dam in Toledo province, Castilla–La Mancha. The dam dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD. It is on the River Amarguillo upstream from…
Dolmen of Guadalperal
The Dolmen of Guadalperal, also known as the Treasure of Guadalperal and as the Spanish Stonehenge for its resemblance to the English Stonehenge, is a megalithic monument dating…
El Oso, Ávila
A municipality in the Spanish province of Avila.
Fontes Tamarici
The Fontes Tamarici are three springs located by the geographer and Roman historian Pliny the Elder in classical Cantabria. Pliny records that the springs were frequently dry,…
Hypogeum of Torre del Ram
The Hypogeum of Torre del Ram is an archaeological site in Cala en Blanes, Ciutadella de Menorca. It is a Bronze Age funerary hypogeum, used as a collective tomb by a family or a…
La Torre-La Janera Megalithic Site
The La Torre-La Janera megalithic site is located in the municipalities of Ayamonte and Villablanca in the province of Huelva, Andalusia. It was discovered in 2018 when a farmer…
Lapa de Gargantáns
The Lapa de Gargantáns is a menhir located in the Galician municipality of Moraña, dated between 3000–2000 BC and discovered in 1958. Several petroglyphs are engraved on its…
Las Bóvedas - Thermae
Located on the right bank of the Guadalmina river near San Pedro de Alcántara in Andalusia, these Roman baths (termas romanas) include massive barrel vaults (bóvedas) that give…
Las Médulas
Las Médulas is a historic gold-mining site near the town of Ponferrada in the comarca of El Bierzo. It was the most important gold mine, as well as the largest open-pit gold mine,…
Naveta
A naveta is a form of megalithic chamber tomb unique to Menorca, Spain, dating to the Bronze Age Naviform period (c. 1600-1200 BC). Named for their resemblance to an upturned…
Numantia
Numantia is an ancient Celtiberian settlement, whose remains are located on a hill known as Cerro de la Muela in the current municipality of Garray, Spain. Numantia is famous for…
Passeig Arqueològic
The Passeig Arqueologic is an archaeological promenade along the ancient Roman walls of Tarraco (modern Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain), part of the UNESCO World Heritage…
Pedra das Cabras
The Stone of the Goats (Galician: Pedra das Cabras) is a petroglyph located in a pine forest near the village of Figueirido, in the Barbanza Region of Galicia. The zoomorphic…
Petavonium
Petavonium was a Roman legionary fortress (castrum) established c. 25-19 BC in the Vidriales valley, Zamora province, Spain, during the Cantabrian Wars under Augustus. It housed a…
Peñas de la Cerca
Peñas de la Cerca is an Iron Age hillfort, in the province of Zamora, north-western Spain. Situated in a mountainous region on the north-western edge of the Northern Sub-Plateau,…
Puente Romano de la Alcantarilla
The Puente Romano de la Alcantarilla is a 1st-century BC Ancient Roman bridge located in Spain.It was constructed to cross a stream, facilitating the passage of travelers and…
Punta de Estaca de Bares
Punta da Estaca de Bares is the northernmost point of Spain and the Iberian Peninsula, at a latitude of 43° 47′ 38″ North. It is located in Galicia. The peninsula of Estaca de…
Quesera (Cheeseboard) de Zonzamas
A large basaltic rock carving at the archaeological complex of Zonzamas on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, interpreted as a prehistoric lunisolar calendar with 12 solar and 13 lunar…
Roman Amphitheatre of Italica
The Roman amphitheatre of Italica is a Roman amphitheatre in the Roman colonia of Italica –in present-day Santiponce, Spain–, in the Roman province of Hispania Baetica. Built…
Roman Baths of Toledo
The Roman baths of Toledo or Roman thermae of Amador de los Ríos are ruins of Roman thermae located in the city of Toledo in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The baths can be seen as…
Roman Circus of Mérida
The Roman circus of Mérida is a Roman circus in the Roman colonia of Emerita Augusta –present-day Mérida, Spain–, capital of the Roman province of Lusitania. Used for chariot…
Roman Circus of Toledo
The Roman circus of Toledo is an Ancient Roman circus site of Hispania. It served the city of Toletum, the present-day Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. The Roman circus at…
Roman Mausoleum of Fabara
2nd-century AD Roman mausoleum on the left bank of the Matarranya River near Fabara, Zaragoza Province. Possibly the best-preserved Roman tomb of its type in the entire Iberian…
Roman Remains under Alfonso X Street
The Roman remains under Alfonso X street, generally called "the chambers of Hacienda", are located in the city of Toledo, in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. The remains are chambers…
Roman Walls of Córdoba
The Roman Walls of Córdoba are the ancient Roman defensive walls of the Roman colonia of Corduba –present-day Córdoba, Spain–, capital of the Roman province of Hispania Baetica.…
Roman Walls of Lugo
The Roman walls surrounding the Old Town of Lugo in Galicia, Spain, built between 263 and 276 AD to defend the town of Lucus Augusti. The fortifications stretch 2,117 m with…
Ruins of Talamanca
Excavations uncovered over 100 metres of medieval wall with seven towers. The site spans multiple historical layers from Roman through Visigothic, Islamic emirate and caliphate,…
S'Argamassa Roman Fish Farm
S'Argamassa Roman Fish Farm can be found 2.8 miles eastwards along the coast from the town of Santa Eulària des Riu on the Spanish island of Ibiza. The Romans built this fish farm…
Ses Païsses
Ses Païsses is a Bronze Age talayotic settlement on the southeastern outskirts of Artà in northeastern Majorca. It is one of the most important and best-preserved prehistoric…
Siega Verde
Siega Verde is a Palaeolithic open-air rock art site in the province of Salamanca, Castile and Leon, Spain, preserving over 440 engravings on rocks eroded by the Agueda River.…
Stone of the Guanches
The Stone of the Guanches, also known as Stone of Taganana, is an engraved stone stele in the village of Afur near Taganana on Tenerife, Canary Islands. Made of red tuff volcanic…
Tarragona Amphitheatre
The Roman Amphitheatre of Tarraco is a 2nd-century AD arena in Hispania Tarraconensis, the capital of Roman Spain. Built near the provincial forum, it measures 130 by 102 metres…
Tomb of Servilia
The Tomb of Servilia (1st-2nd century AD) is the largest tomb in the Roman Necropolis of Carmona, near Seville, Spain. Built on a Hellenistic model, it resembles a luxurious Roman…
Torralba and Ambrona - Archaeological Site
Torralba and Ambrona are two paleontological and archaeological sites that correspond to various fossiliferous levels with Acheulean lithic industry associated, at least about…
Torralba d'en Salort
Torralba d'en Salort is one of the best-preserved Talayotic settlements on Menorca, featuring two talayots, a hypostyle hall, dwellings, and the island's finest taula sanctuary.…
Torre d'en Galmés
Torre d'en Galmés is a Talayotic settlement on the island of Menorca, located between Alaior and Son Bou.
Torre dels Escipions
Torre dels Escipions is a Roman funerary tower built in the early 1st century AD along the Via Augusta, 6 km from ancient Tarraco (modern Tarragona), capital of Hispania Citerior.…
Tower of Hercules
The Tower of Hercules is an ancient Roman lighthouse in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, overlooking the Atlantic coast. It is the only fully preserved Roman lighthouse still used for…
Turuñuelo
El Turuñuelo is a Tartessian archaeological site in Guareña, Badajoz, Spain, representing the late phase of this civilization in the Middle Guadiana Valley during the 5th century…
University Museum A Domus do Mitreo
The University Museum A Domus do Mitreo is a museum in Lugo, Spain, built on the site of the Pazo de Montenegro next to the Roman walls. Archaeological excavations uncovered a…
Walls of Seville
The Walls of Seville are defensive fortifications surrounding Seville's Old Town, originally constructed during the Roman period. Over centuries, they were maintained and modified…
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