Tarragona Half Day Tour
Tarragona, Spain
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Trip Type: Half-day Tours
Duration: 5 hours
Relive the glorious Roman past in the capital of ancient Spain, the coastal town of Tarragona. This half-day tour of Imperial Rome will take you to the ancient capital of the ‘Hispania Citerior’, one of the three provinces that formed the Iberian Peninsula about two thousand years ago. Your expert guide will pick you up in a comfortable car/minivan and will assist you on this journey back in time when gladiators, centurions and emperors wrote the mythical and bloody history of the Roman Empire. Tarragona is located about 60 miles (100 km) south of Barcelona, on the Costa Dorada – formed of sandy beaches and crystal clear waters.
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Relive the glorious Roman past in the capital of ancient Spain, the coastal town of Tarragona. This half-day tour of Imperial Rome will take you to the ancient capital of the ‘Hispania Citerior’, one of the three provinces that formed the Iberian Peninsula about two thousand years ago. Your expert guide will pick you up in a comfortable car/minivan and will assist you on this journey back in time when gladiators, centurions and emperors wrote the mythical and bloody history of the Roman Empire. Tarragona is located about 60 miles (100 km) south of Barcelona, on the Costa Dorada – formed of sandy beaches and crystal clear waters.With your guide, head from Barcelona to Tarragona. Here you will admire the impressive Aqüeducte de les Ferreres– a Roman Aqueduct. Also called 'The Devil’s Bridge', this structure, 700+ feet long (217m) and almost 20 feet high(26m), is a spectacular example of Roman advanced engineering.
In Tarragona you will go on a walking tour, where you will discover the many, still preserved remains of this civilization. You will be able to explore the ancient walls surrounding the city and get immersed into one of the best preserved circuses in Europe, hidden under building structures from nineteenth century. You will see as the traces of the ancient Roman forum live in the present with the medieval and modern Tarragona and how this part of the city remains, 2000 years later, the center of its activity.
Finally, you will be amazed at the ruins of the Amphitheater, located on the shores of the Mediterranean since the second century, and where bloody battles between gladiators were exhibited. Among other things, Tarraco was an important site thanks to its privileged location on the sea. This tour ends in the so called balcony of the Mediterranean, a terrace from where you can enjoy the most beautiful views of the beach and the ocean, eternal backdrop of this town steeped in history.
In Tarragona you will go on a walking tour, where you will discover the many, still preserved remains of this civilization. You will be able to explore the ancient walls surrounding the city and get immersed into one of the best preserved circuses in Europe, hidden under building structures from nineteenth century. You will see as the traces of the ancient Roman forum live in the present with the medieval and modern Tarragona and how this part of the city remains, 2000 years later, the center of its activity.
Finally, you will be amazed at the ruins of the Amphitheater, located on the shores of the Mediterranean since the second century, and where bloody battles between gladiators were exhibited. Among other things, Tarraco was an important site thanks to its privileged location on the sea. This tour ends in the so called balcony of the Mediterranean, a terrace from where you can enjoy the most beautiful views of the beach and the ocean, eternal backdrop of this town steeped in history.
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