{"id":4205,"date":"2019-07-12T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agaaga.blog\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2024-03-11T04:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:23:38","slug":"autiquarium-at-las-setas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/2019\/07\/12\/autiquarium-at-las-setas\/","title":{"rendered":"Autiquarium at Las Setas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As with most attractions we’ve visited so far, Las Setas (Metropol Parasol) has Roman ruins beneath its market, which in turn has Islamic ruins from the 12-13th centuries below it. The Roman ruins were discovered during the construction of Las Setas and preserved for visitors. A visit to the ruins was free for the kids and a whopping \u20ac2.10 for me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ruins are of an area settled around 40 AD, with a city wall and delimited plots for craftsmen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The standard layout of homes had a central courtyard, with columns made of circular bricks. In later times, the columns were made with marble.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Important spaces are paved with mosaic tiles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There was a lot of tile, and quite a bit is very well preserved \/ restored.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The kids couldn’t get over the size and intricateness of the work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The town had cobblestoned streets with sewers and lead water pipes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the homes (domus). Homes of the noble typically had a well, a shallow pool, and various family rooms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Taking a closer look.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is supposedly the remains of a doorjamb from a funerary or religious building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This was a massive area – makes sense as it was of a town in the Roman times.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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See the itty bitty Nolan in the back right corner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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That money is new, not from olden days. And no, you can’t fish it out somehow!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Salting Factory – specifically, a salt-fish factory. How did they know that??? Read on to find out \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Salting vats, with modern day pipes running over them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The plate contains bones and scales of the different fishes recovered and analyzed from the area with the vats. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marble basin from a house fountain. If you look very closely, you’ll see Arabic inscriptions around the top. Muslims, Visigoths, and Romans, built on top of each other at the same site.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There were excellent interactive displays for the kids to learn about the ruins. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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He really wanted to lean on a column – this was the closest I would let him get to one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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2.5 km for our explorations of these ruins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As with most attractions we’ve visited so far, Las Setas (Metropol Parasol) has Roman ruins beneath its market, which in turn has Islamic ruins from the 12-13th centuries below it. The Roman ruins were discovered during the construction of Las Setas and preserved for visitors. A visit to the ruins was free for the kids […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4222,"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-4205","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\/09\/img_9076-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\/4205","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=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15970,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/15970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}