Tarragona
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2014
About 100 kilometers south of Barcelona on the Mediterranean coast sits Tarragona, a city of 135,000 people well known for its Roman ruins. Tarragona, or “Tarraco”, was captured by the Romans in 217 or 218 B.C. and became an important strategic hub, given its location on the Mediterranean; the first Roman Emperor, Caesar Augustus (62 B.C. […]