Baelo Claudia

C á d i z Marble votive plaque dedicated to Isis, Español Welcome to the Institutional Centre Permanent found at the foot of the first step of the Visitor information Address, Opening Hours and Visits temple (Museum of Cadiz) English Baelo Claudia collection Français Deutsch Archaeological Ensemble Archaeological Ensemble of Baelo Claudia RED DE ESPACIOS CULTURALES DE ANDALUCÍA Address: Ensenada de Bolonia s/n 11380 Tarifa (Cádiz) Telf: 956 106 796 – 956 106 797 Archaeological Historical and Monuments Andalucia of “...Baelo is a port from which you normally Fax: 956 688 688 [email protected] embark for Tingis (Tangiers) in Mauritania. www.museosdeandalucia.es/cultura/museos/CABC It’s also a trading centre that has factories for salting fish...” Strabo (18 AD) TOP FLOOR How to get to Baelo Claudia. Take the N-340 main road and at Km. 70.2 turn Top floor 1 off onto the CA.P.8202 local road and continue until you reach Ensenada de The city of Baelo Claudia is situated on the Eastern Bolonia, the location of Baelo. part of the Bolonia inlet, on the Northern shore of the Straits 4 of Gibraltar. It is surrounded by an arc of mountains made The first room contains the section featuring religion, urban The top floor of the museum area provides a 2 Public opening hours up of the La Plata and San Bartolomé ranges. This makes planning and the economy. 3 general overview of the city. It therefore the sea its best form of comunication, and to this it owed has a model of Baelo Claudia with an Religion and funerary world are represented at the end of the its wealth and reputation. Its main economic explanatory panel that sets the city within To confirm hours and opening days, consult room, where there is a varied collection resource was fishing, mainly for tuna. its geographical context. In the corridor is GROUND FLOOR www.museosdeandalucia.es Zahra a display case that uses text and of grave goods and funerary items, - Excavations have revealed the most comprehensive interactive features to demonstrate the legal including several votive plaques dedicated remains of a Roman city on the whole of the Iberian Peninsula, to Isis. 8 and administrative organisation of Baelo 4 5 with extremely interesting monuments such as the basilica, Claudia, the main cities and routes of Visits for groups: the theatre, the market, and the temple of Isis. communication in Hispania, and the city's The central part of this room contains 7 6 evolution. artefacts relating to the decorative Nowhere else on the Iberian Peninsula can you have arts. Consequently, art, sculpture and Call to the Archaeological Ensemble. Telf: 956 106 793 al Madinat Dólmenes de Antequera de Dólmenes Itálica architecture are the protagonists of the Carmona such a complete view of a Roman city as in Baelo Claudia. Completing this first section and serving as Claudia Baelo La Alcazaba La 1.– Reception Shop Cástulo Although this is its most interesting aspect, you can also enjoy an introduction to the museum area is the display dedicated to urban planning 2.– Administrative area Elevator its setting in spectacular scenery in the Straits Natural Park. "Piece of the Month". Situated next to the and architecture. The monumental entrance, this is a regularly updated display presence of a column from the city's 3.– Library Toilets basilica looms particularly large in this Price of the items in the Baelo Claudia collections. 4.– Permanent exhibition Exhibition areas section. 5.– Workshop and stores Private area According to currently applicable rates The Baelo economy is exemplified 6.– Restoration workshop Open areas Claudia Baelo The Institutional Centre at the Archaeological Ensemble of Baelo Claudia was at the front of the room by a series of 7.– Conference hall inaugurated in December 2007. It was designed by the architect Guillermo amphorae and instruments ALMERÍA Historical Monument of Monument Historical ALMERÍA of Complex Archaeological SEVILLA of Complex Archaeological MÁLAGA of Complex Archaeological JAÉN of Complex Archaeological SEVILLA of Complex Archaeological CÁDIZ Vázquez Consuegra. of Complex Archaeological CÓRDOBA associated with fishing, the basis of 8.– Temporal exhibition Ground floor the city's flourishing economy. The building has a reception area and administrative centre, as well as exhibition, museum, restoration and storage areas to hold the numerous artefacts from the Beyond this room, the second excavations conducted at the archaeological site since the beginning of the 20th View of the basílica, with the institutional building of the exhibition area on the ground floor century. It also has a library specialising in the Roman world, a lecture room and is dedicated to the baths. The most REMEMBER: Archeological Ensemble of Baelo Claudia in the background The ground floor is a large, elongated space Permanent exhibition room. Ground floor. a scientific archive consisting of extensive documentation arising from noteworthy piece is a sculpture, a This historic site is here for your enjoyment. To make the most of your visit, investigations at Baelo Claudia. focusing on Baelo Claudia as a Hispano-Roman city. This section links roman copy of the Doryphoros please respect the archaeological remains, the plants, and all the facilities, together the various themes which offer reciently found in the Maritime Baths and please respect instructions from the staff, who are here to help. The exhibition space comprises two permanent exhibitions rooms and another visitors different perspectives of the Roman of Baelo. one for temporary exhibitions. The permanent exhibition rooms are situated in a Photography is permitted in the public areas (without tripod or flash) for city. double height area and have cenital lighting; from here visitors can appreciate an personal use; commercial photography for any purpose is prohibited. Next comes the temporary exhibitions interesting view of the Bay of Bolonia. Finally, we want remember that children must at all time be accompanied This ground-floor space comprises two areas room, where the subject matter is and supervised by their parents or guardians. separated by a large, transversal panel: the regularly updated, making this the most The tour continues with the temporary exhibition room, a more dynamic environ- dynamic area in the centre. We hope your visit will be an unforgettable experience. ment leads directly to the Roman city. first section is double-height, while the second section has a lower ceiling. Sculpture female, of Complex Archaeological located in the east necropolis, Late greco-italic amphora, close to the Puerta de Carteia located in the fish salting factories C á d i z Español History Recommended View of the factory Singularities of English area. In the foreground Français tour the salting basins. the site In the backgroud the Deutsch industrial complex and RED DE ESPACIOS CULTURALES DE ANDALUCÍA Our recommended tour of the Roman city begins with a walk outside the city the Atlantic Ocean. walls, taking in the east aqueduct (1), which supplied some of the city's drinking water. Archaeological Historical and Monuments Andalucia of Continuing parallel to the city walls, we are able to appreciate the Anthropomorphic figure or architectural configuration, flanked by numerous towers (2). Following this line baetylus funeral stone found in the of walls, but before entering the city, we come to the large area of the late East necropolis at Baelo Claudia necropolis (3), which has been excavated in part over the last few years. Baelo Claudia emerged in the 2nd century BC in an area of great strategic We now enter the city, next to one of the main gates, the Puerta de Carteia Continuing along the decumanus maximus (16), we reach another of the NECROPOLIS importance: the Straits of Gibraltar. Its origin and subsequent development (4), which marks the axis of the city's decumanus maximus. As we continue city's main gates, the Puerta de Gades (17). are closely associated with the salting industries and trade with the North of along this road, we come to Africa, as it was the main port for present-day Tangier. From here, we enter the bathing area (18) then head along cardo 1 to the Founded during the High Roman Empire, the city the intersection with the had two cemeteries or necropolises: one on the theatre (19), where the gently sloping hill was used for the seating area. cardo and follow it south Around the dawn of the new era, the city experienced a period of urban road leading out of the city by the “Puerta de towards the salting factories Carteia” gate to the East, and another at the expansion, culminating in the first half of the 2nd century AD with the (5), one of the largest Finally, we visit the monumental or religious area which, situated on a higher construction of a large monumental forum, recreational buildings and an terrace, clearly dominates the city's monumental and civic centre. This area opposite end, behind the road out of the city via industrial complexes that has the “Puerta de Gades” gate. Both of these important salting complex, which was in fact the economic driving force of the been excavated in the Iberian comprises three symmetrical temples (20), traditionally identified as the city. It was at this time that Baelo received the name of Claudia and gained Capitoline Triad, dedicated to the gods Juno, Jupiter and Minerva. With the funerary areas are therefore located outside the Peninsula. the status of a Roman city, ushering in the most important period of rise of oriental cults, another temple was also added. Dedicated to the city, on the two access roads to Baelo. prosperity in its history. Continuing our tour, we Egyptian goddess Isis (21), it is the only one in Hispania with the groundplan return now to the decumanus still intact.

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