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Tarragona
Location of Tarragona
Coordinates: 41°06′56″N 1°14′58″E / 41.11556, 1.24944
Municipality Tarragona
Government
 - Mayor Josep Fèlix Ballesteros (PSC)
Area
 - Total 64. A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a City, Town, or Village, or A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 6 km² (25 sq mi)
Elevation 6 m (20 ft)
Population (2005)
 - Total 144,163
 - Density 1,983/km² (5,135. To help compare different Orders of magnitude and geographical regions we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km² The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 9/sq mi)
Website: www.tarragona.cat
Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco*
UNESCO World Heritage Site
View of Roman Circus
State Party Flag of Spain Spain
Type Cultural
Criteria ii, iii
Reference 875
Region† Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription 2000  (24th Session)
* Name as inscribed on World Heritage List.
† Region as classified by UNESCO.

Tarragona (IPA: [tərəˈɣonə] in Catalan) is a city located in the south of Catalonia and east of Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex As of 2008 there are a total of 878 World Heritage Sites located in 145 "State Parties" Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe. Asia Minor, Cyprus, all of the Aegean Islands, the Canaries A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex Catalan ˈkætəˌlæn ( català kətəˈla or) is a Romance language, the national and official language of Andorra, and a co-official Catalonia (Cataluña Catalunya Aranese: Catalonha) is an Autonomous Community in the northeast part of Spain. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragonès. Tarragona is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. Tarragonès is a comarca (county in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of the three comarques formed in the 1936 comarcal division of Camp Its map coordinates are 41°06′56.51″N, 1°14′58.54″E. As of the 2005 census, the city had a population of 144,163, and the population of the entire urban area was estimated to be 450,921. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population

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History

In Roman times, the city was named Tarraco (Ταρρακών in Ptolemy, ii. The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial Claudius Ptolemaeus ( Greek: Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; after 83 &ndash ca 6. § 17) and was capital of the province of Hispania Tarraconensis (after being capital of Hispania Citerior in the Republican era). Hispania Tarraconensis was one of three Roman provinces in Hispania. the Roman Republic, Hispania Citerior (English Hither Spain) was a region of Hispania roughly located in the northeastern coast and in the Ebro The Roman colony founded at Tarraco had the full name of Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco.

Some experts suggest that the city was an Iberic town called Kesse or Kosse, derived of the iberic tribe of those region: the cosetians. Smith suggests that the city was probably founded by the Phoenicians, who called it 'Tarchon, which, according to Samuel Bochart, means a citadel. Sir William Smith (1813 &ndash 1893 English Lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents Phoenicia ( Phoenician: Phoenician nunsvg|12px|נ]]Phoenician nun Samuel Bochart ( Rouen, 30 May 1599 - Caen, 16 May 1667) was a French Protestant biblical scholar a student of Thomas This name was probably derived from its situation on a high rock, between 700 and 800 feet above the sea; whence we find it characterised as arce potens Tarraco. A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit (Auson. Class. Urb. 9; cf. Mart. x. 104. ) It was seated on the river Sulcis or Tulcis (modern Francolí), on a bay of the Mare Internum (Mediterranean Sea), between the Pyrenees and the river Iberus (modern Ebro). The Ebro ( Ebre) is Spain 's most voluminous river Its source is in Fontibre ( Cantabria) (Mela, ii. Mela is a Sanskrit word meaning 'gathering' or 'to meet' It is used in the Indian subcontinent for all sizes of gathering and can be religious commercial cultural 6; Plin. iii. Gaius or Caius Plinius Secundus, ( AD 23 – August 25, AD 79 better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient Author 3. s. 4. ) Livy (xxii. Titus Livius (traditionally 59 BC &ndash AD 17 known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome 22) mentions a portus Tarraconis; and according to Eratosthenes (ap. Eratosthenes of Cyrene ( Greek; 276 BC - 194 BC was a Greek Mathematician, Poet, athlete, Geographer and Strabo iii. Strabo ( Greek: Στράβων 63/64 BC – ca AD 24 was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. p. 159) it had a naval station or roads (Ναύσταθμον); but Artemidorus (ap. There is another Artemidorus Ephesius, a geographer who lived between the 2nd and 1st centuries BC Strab. l. c. ; Polyb. iii. Polybius (ca 203 &ndash 120 BC, Greek) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his book called The Histories 76) says with more probability that it had none, and scarcely even an anchoring place; and Strabo himself calls it ἀλίμενος. This answers better to its present condition; for though a mole was constructed in the 15th century with the materials of the ancient amphitheatre, and another subsequently by an Englishman named John Smith, it still affords but little protection for shipping. An amphitheatre (alternatively amphitheater) is an open-air venue for spectator sports concerts rallies or theatrical performances (Ford's Handbook of Spain, p. 222. ) Tarraco lies on the main road along the south-eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe, and includes modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra (Itin. Ant. pp. The Antonine Itinerary (in Latin: Antonini Itinerarium) is a register of the stations and distances along the various roads of the Roman empire, containing 391, 396, 399, 448, 452. ) It was fortified and much enlarged by the brothers Publius and Gnaeus Scipio, who converted it into a fortress and arsenal against the Carthagenians. Publius Cornelius Scipio (died 211 BC was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic. Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus (died 211 BC was a Roman general and statesman Carthage (Καρχηδών Karkhēdōn, Carthago from the Phoenician קרת חדשת phn-Latn Qart-ḥadašt meaning new town) refers Subsequently it became the capital of the province named after it, a Roman colony, and conventus juridicus. In Ancient Rome territorial organization a conventus iuridicus was the capital city of a subdivision of some provinces ( Dalmatia, Spain (Plin. l. c. ; Tac. Ann. Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca 56 &ndash ca 117 was a senator and a Historian of the Roman Empire. i. 78; Solin. 23, 26; Polyb. x. 34; Liv. xxi. 61; Steph. B. p. Stephanus of Byzantium, also known as Stephanus Byzantinus ( Greek:; fl 637. )

Augustus wintered at Tarraco after his Cantabrian campaign, and bestowed many marks of honor on the city, among which were its honorary titles of Colonia Victrix Togata and Colonia Julia Victrix Tarraconensis. Augustus ( Latin: IMPERATOR·CAESAR·DIVI·FILIVS·AVGVSTVS September 23 63 BC – August 19 AD 14) born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, was The city also minted coins. (Grut. Inscr. p. 382; Orelli, no. 3127; coins in Eckhel, i. p. 27; Florez, Med. Enrique Florez ( February 14, 1701 - August 20, 1773) was a Spanish historian ii. p. 579; Mionnet, i. p. 51, Suppl. i. p. 104; Sestini, p. 202. ) According to Mela (l. c. ) it was the richest town on that coast, and Strabo (l. c. ) represents its population as equal to that of Carthago Nova (modern Cartagena). Cartagena ( is a Spanish Mediterranean city and naval station in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula in the autonomous community of Region of Murcia Its fertile plain and sunny shores are celebrated by Martial and other poets; and its neighborhood is described as producing good wine and flax. Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial) (March 1 40 AD - ca (Mart. x. 104, xiii. 118; Sil. Ital. iii. 369, xv. 177; Plin. xiv. 6. s. 8, xix. 1. s. 2. )

Ancient remains

There are still many important ancient remains at Tarragona. Part of the bases of large Cyclopean walls near the Quartel de Pilatos are thought to be anterior to the Romans. Cyclopean masonry is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture built with huge Limestone Boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal The building just mentioned, a prison in the 19th century, is said to have been the palace of Augustus. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar But Tarraco, like most other ancient towns which have continued to be inhabited, has been pulled to pieces by its own citizens for the purpose of obtaining building materials. The amphitheatre near the sea-shore has been used as a quarry, and but few vestiges of it now remain. A circus, 1500 feet long, is now built over it, though portions of it are still to be traced. Throughout the town Latin, and even apparently Phoenician, inscriptions on the stones of the houses proclaim the desecration that has been perpetrated. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal region then called Pūt in Ancient Egyptian Canaan in Phoenician, Hebrew, and Two ancient monuments, at some little distance from the town, have, however, fared rather better. The first of these is a magnificent aqueduct, which spans a valley about a mile from the gates. It is 700 feet in length, and the loftiest arches, of which there are two tiers, are 96 feet high. The monument on the northwest of the city, and also about a mile distant, is a Roman sepulchre, commonly called the "Tower of the Scipios"; but there is no authority for assuming that they were buried here. (Cf. Ford, Handbook, p. 219, seq. ; Florez, Esp. Sagr. xxix. p. 68, seq. ; Miñano, Diccion. viii. p. 398. )

Roman Aqueduct

The Roman Aqueduct
The Roman Aqueduct

In the forest a few kilometers north of the city, a Roman arch bridge carrying an aqueduct has been preserved. The ancient Romans constructed numerous aqueducts ( Latin aquaeductūs, sing It is known locally as "Devil's Bridge" (El Pont del Diable in Catalan, or El Puente del Diablo in Spanish). [1]

Modern Tarragona

Tarragona is home to a large port and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. ||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|} A port is a facility for receiving Ships and transferring cargo Much of its economic activity comes from a large amount of chemical industries located in the city or in surrounding areas.

Tarragona tourist attractions include the Museum of Archaeology and the Roman ruins of Tarraco, which has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on November 16 Tarragona has a wall surrounding the old city, too. There are two gates through the wall of Tarragona: the Portal del Roser and the Portal de Sant Antoni. The Portal de Sant Antoni is a monumental gate on the wall of Tarragona.

The main living heritage is the Popular Retinue -a great parade of dances, bestiary and spoken dances- and the human towers. They specially participate in Santa Tecla Festival. The Santa Tecla Festival is a festival held in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. They are so popular in Tarragona and also in all Catalonia that they have got their own home. It is call "Casa de la Festa", Festivies House, where you can visit them all the year. [1]

A number of good beaches, some awarded a prestigious Blue Flag designation, line the Mediterranean coast near the city. A Blue Flag beach is a maritime or freshwater Recreational Beach that has met stringent quality standards during the whole of the previous bathing season

Tarragona is located near the holiday resort of Salou and the Universal Studios theme park Port Aventura, one of the largest in Europe. A resort is a place used for Relaxation or Recreation, attracting visitors for Holidays or Vacations Resorts are places towns or sometimes Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American Theme park is the generic term for a collection of rides and other Entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group PortAventura is a Theme park in the Holiday resort of Salou, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, on the Costa Daurada

General view

Tarragona Amphitheatre

Portal de Sant Antoni

Via Imperial

Torre dels Escipions

The industrial area north of the city

Major Events

One of the most important and interesting carnivals in Catalonia, with one of the most complete ritual sequences of the Catalan carnivals, so local and so universal that this is the synthesis that makes it special. Official website

The unique dixieland festival in Spain and one of the most important in Europe: 25 bands and 100 concerts and activities the week before Holy Week. Official website

One of the most important Roman recreations of the world. A lot of groups around Europe recreate the Roman world: from the Roman legions, to the daily live. It's celebrated between 10th and 20th May.

The most important fireworks contest in the Mediterranean area is held every first week of July in Tarragona, in a wonderful bay -Punta del Miracle-, a place praised by the famous architect Antoni Gaudí. A firework is classified as a low explosive pyrotechnic device used primarily for aesthetic and entertainment purposes The competition selects six international pyrotechnic companies every year. Official website1

Official website 2

The second traditional religious festival in Tarragona, between 15th and 19th August. Official website

One of the most important Mediterranean traditional festivals, between 15th and 24th September. The Santa Tecla Festival is a festival held in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. It has been celebrated since 1321 and it has been considered of national touristic interest by the state. Official website

Other information

The Music Video for the hit single 'Vertigo' from U2's album "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" was filmed near Deltebre, in southern Tarragona in September 2004.

Town twinning

References

  1. ^ Structurae [en]: Tarragona Aqueduct (117)

See also

External links

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Dictionary

Tarragona

-proper noun

  1. A port of Catalonia, Spain.
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