{"id":3155,"date":"2019-06-30T14:06:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T18:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agaaga.blog\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2020-04-20T13:49:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T17:49:53","slug":"roman-ruins-italica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/2019\/06\/30\/roman-ruins-italica\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman ruins: Italica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Italica was a town built around 200 BC, and because no modern city was built over it, it is very well preserved. It was only a 30 minute bus ride from Sevilla\u2019s Plaza de Armas station (short walk from our apartment). Cost of the bus was \u20ac8 each way and admission to the ruins was free on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Garden wall on the walk to the bus station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It contains the third largest amphitheatre at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First view of the amphitheatre, which could hold up to 25,000 spectators.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Entering the amphitheatre …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pit where the animals were held during the gladiator shows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Roads in Italica with ruins of buildings on either side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Italica was the birthplace of the Emperor Trajan – this is a copy of a statue of him. Italica is also the birthplace of the Emperor Hadrian (who started the Hadrian’s Wall in northern England to block the Scots).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mosaics at the House of the Planetarium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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J\u00fapiter \/ Jupiter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Saturno \/ Saturn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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El Sol \/ The Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mosaics at the House of Neptune. This is in a building housing baths – both warm and cold pools existed. We missed seeing the aqueduct that brought water in from springs and rivers to be stored in a cistern that held 900,000 litres of water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A noble’s house with courtyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ongoing restorations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Under the city was a sewer system that still exists. There are grates covering them today. What did the kids find?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They checked each other out for a very long time!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Baths<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Whole area for businesses – this is the bakery, with ovens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Felix with the bust of Fortuna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Colourful flowers to end our tour – no idea what this is, but it looks like a bottlebrush!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As we were finishing up, Lara mentioned that she had learnt about the Romans last year in school, but that she learnt way more during our 3 hour stay at Italica. She was most diligent about reading the descriptions at each exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total walking distance at the ruins: 7.4 km<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italica was a town built around 200 BC, and because no modern city was built over it, it is very well preserved. It was only a 30 minute bus ride from Sevilla\u2019s Plaza de Armas station (short walk from our apartment). Cost of the bus was \u20ac8 each way and admission to the ruins was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internationaltravel","category-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_7472-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5972,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/5972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}