Muñoz, Andreu

Between 2010 and 2011 there were excavations inside the Visigoth basilica of the Roman amphitheatre of Tarragona. Based on the data obtained during this intervention, the documentary offers an educational and diachronic vision of the different phases of construction and buildings that have succeeded one another inside this amphitheatre, which was built in the Roman era and has since been given many uses.

Archaeological surveys and investigations were recently carried out inside the cathedral of Tarragona, located at the highest point of the city’s old town. The purpose of this work was to locate the remains of a large Roman temple dedicated to the imperial cult. The Acropolis of Tarragona was occupied from the third century BC by the Romans, who set up a military camp to supervise operations against the Carthaginians during the Second Punic War. From the first century AD, it was converted into a sacred area to house a huge building dedicated to Emperor Augustus. This holy place was used until the fifth century, when it was dismantled.

The San Fructuoso cultural association presents the reconstruction of the customs and ritual of a late-Roman Christian burial from the time that the person lay dying to the family celebrations held in honour of the deceased in the tomb itself or close by.