Sagunto Archaeology Museum Bas-relief, third century third AD Bas-relief, Nilotic scene. Nilotic scene.

Archaeological Site 1 Archaeology Museum 2 Roman Theatre 20 3 Plaza de Armas. Roman Forum 4 Almenara gate 12 5 Plaza de Almenara (Citadel) 11 16 6 Plaza de Conillera (Albacara) 9 10 15 17 18 7 Plaza de Tres Castellets (Albacara)* 13 19 8 8 San Fernando Gate 3 9 Mahoma gate 14 10 Moneda Tower 4 11 inscriptions hall 12 Plaza de San Fernando 13 Plaza de Estudiantes 5 2 14 Islamic Gate 6 15 Hercules Tower 16 Plaza de la Ciudadela 17 Penó Tower 7 S 18 Plaza de Dos de Mayo 19 Watchtower N 1 20 Tres Pouets. Iberian walls* 0 50 m 100 m 200 m 300 m *closed to public

Sagunto Archaeology Museum

Sagunto Archaeology Museum Built in the Augustan era, the selection of domestic sculptures, is located in a former merchant Forum is another landmark in mosaics and paintings that would exchange building, originally Sagunto’s transformation into a have decorated the town’s noble dating from the 14th century. On Roman town. The process can be houses. A visit to the museum exhibit in the ground floor are appreciated in the scale model concludes with a large display some of the archaeological pieces of the forum and the exhibition case featuring everyday objects that attracted the attention of of a number of objects that used by the inhabitants of travellers and historians in the would have been located in this Saguntum. 16th century, including the Roman civic centre, such as honorific statue of a man clad in a toga inscriptions and the statue of a with bulla. Evidence of the early man clad in toga. Romanization of the Iberian city On exhibit in the hall on the of Arse can be seen in the Iberian first floor dedicated to trade is inscriptions, in various sculptures a collection of coins, amphorae, and in a group of bronze a statera (weighing scales) and Head (?) statues reflecting the religious an anchor. In the other halls on Hellenistic or Roman copy sentiments of the time. the first floor, visitors can see a

MUSEUM, THEATRE, CASTLE AND INSCRIPTIONS HALL Plaza de Plaza de OPENING HOURS: San Fernando Plaza de la Ciudadela Dos de Mayo INSCRIPTIONS Summer (April - October) HALL Plaza de Tuesday - Saturday: 10.00 am to 8.00 pm Estudiantes Sunday and public holidays: 10.00 am to 2.00 pm CASTLE

Winter (November - March) ROMAN Tuesday - Saturday: 10.00 am to 6.00 pm FORUM Plaza de Armas ROMAN Sunday and public holidays: 10.00 am THEATRE to 2.00 pm Calvary Plaza de Plaza de admission Free to all sites Almenara Conillera

Albacara Plaza de Tres Castellets ARCHAEOLOGY Santa Maria INFORMATION: MUSEUM Church

Sagunto Archaeology Museum PLAZA Calle Castell, 23 MAYOR 46500 Sagunto () San Miguel Hermitage Calle Mayor Calle Camino Real  962 617 267 Fax 962 617 266 E-mail: [email protected] www.cult.gva.es/dgpa/museosagunto/index.html

Edited by Generalitat Valenciana • Legal Deposit V-3041-2014 The Roman Theatre

The Roman theatre has always Monument in 1896. In Roman of the stage was as high as the loomed large over the history of times the theatre had a capacity seating area, and was covered by Sagunto and in the 10th century of around 4000 spectators. a wooden roof. Actors entered the Persian scholar Al-Razi The orchestra is the space the proscenium through three described it as “a palace built between the stage and the cavea doors framed by semi-circular over the sea”. However, during (sitting area), which was divided walls: the porta regia in the centre the in the early into three sections: ima, media and the hospitalia on the sides. 19 th century, the upper part of and summa. The large stands the seating area was destroyed. closest to the orchestra were TRIBUNA Following archaeological reserved for city magistrates. The columnatio CAVEA excavations the construction has top of the cavea was surrounded valva PORTICUS hospitalia been dated to the mid-1st century by a continuous portico. The valva ADITUS AD. proscenium is the place where regia The Roman Theatre of Sagunto The theatre is located on the plays were performed, and the th at the beginning of the 19 century upper part of the northern slope auleum or retractable front Alexandre de Laborde: Voyage VERSURA of the castle hill, next to the curtain was sunk into the floor pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne, PROSCAENIUM Paris, 1811 Forum. It was declared a National underneath. The main body ORCHESTRA

The Castle

The castle was strategically the pre-existing Iberian-Roman Almenara in the late 16th century. located overlooking the coast fortress. In Imperial times the Forum was and the banks of the Palancia The fortress is now divided at the centre of the town and River, one of the main routes into various plazas. The Islamic this was also where the Christian inland. citadel was located in Plaza de governor’s residence was located. The Iberian town of Arse was Almenara (formerly Saloquia) The western sector includes the located at the western part. The while the outer walled enclosure Plaza de Estudiantes, Plaza de la current walls are a combination known as albacara occupied Ciudadela, Plaza de San Fernando of repairs and restructuring to Plaza de Conillera and Plaza de and Plaza de Dos de Mayo; the the Islamic fortification, in which Tres Castellets. Here one can defences of these last two plazas one can appreciate Muslim walls appreciate the typical crenelated had embrasures. and subsequent reforms dating walls of Islamic fortifications. from the Gothic and Renaissance In times of danger people and periods as well as during the cattle retreated to the albacara Peninsular War. Latest research for protection. A bastion with dates the Islamic wall to the 11th embrasures was built in the century, with some parts built on north-eastern part of Plaza de

The Imperial Forum

The Forum was the political, Baebio Gemino, a wealthy citizen Remains of the basilica

TABERNAE social and religious centre of of Sagunto. CURIA TEMPLE Roman towns and cities, and PUBLIC SQUARE TANK was located in what is now Plaza de Armas in the remains BASILICA of the castle. The basilica, headquarters of the tribunal, was on the western side of the forum while trade took place in the line of tabernae (shops) on the eastern side. The temple was on the northern side, next to the curia, the headquarters of the city Senate. The plaza was paved with grey limestone Model of Imperial Forum cobbles, like the one with an (hypothetical restoration) inscription belonging to Cneo

The Inscriptions Hall

Located in the castle, in Plaza de San Fernando, the Inscriptions Hall has one of the best collections of inscriptions in the . It also exhibits a large number of Hebrew inscriptions and Roman architectural elements.

Burial mound with Hebrew Honorific inscription dedicated inscription, 14th century to Scipion