{"id":149,"date":"2020-05-27T18:12:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T18:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gavilansevilla.com\/en\/?p=149"},"modified":"2020-09-28T22:12:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:12:35","slug":"italica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gavilansevilla.com\/en\/italica\/","title":{"rendered":"Italica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first roman city of Hispania.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was also the first city founded in the Italian territory.\u00a0To visit the city of Italica, today an archaeological site, is to make a journey into the Roman Empire, wandering through the same streets of its ancient inhabitants and imagining the enormous structures that they raised there, of which only remain the ruins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Municipality to Colony<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While the Second Punic War was raging General Scipio established a military settlement for the legionaries here, the Sevillian Aljarafe, today belonging to the municipality of Santiponce a few kilometres from Seville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What had started as a Military colony, ended up being one of the principle cities of the Roman territories.\u00a0The proof of which were the two emperors who were born in Italica, Trajan and Hadrian, who in turn bestowed the city with more privileges and improvements.\u00a0With Hadrian Italica stopped being a simple municipality and became a model city of Rome<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A buried city<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

However, the ruins that are open to visitors are only part of this immense city, specifically the expansion overseen by the government of the Emperor Hadrian.\u00a0The remains of the primeval city continue to be buried under the town of Santiponce, settled here since 1603.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notwithstanding this expansion was conceived for the most powerful families, as the ruins are large Domus, Roman houses, with well conserved opulent mosaics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n