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City Route
The town grew beyond its walls as corsair attacks diminished from 1670. The Plaza del Olmo became the new town centre. From 1862, the Calle de Colón, the new Valencia road, became the main road. The market, the Theatre Auditorium, the Villa of Centella, the Roman Baths, the Chocolate museums and the…
Roman military camp (panel no 21)
There is the site of a military camp — in latin called ‘castra’ — from the Sertorian war, which took place between 83 and 72 BC.
It is the first to be discovered in the Valencian Community.
It could accomodate one cohort, more or less 500 men.
The fossa fastigata — or sloping ditch — surrounding it, has been excavated in Colon, Pizarro and Juan Tonda streets.
We have marked its path with these bronze medallions.
If you read the word FOSSA the right way round you are within the camp.
On the embankment there would have been a fence or a parapet made of adobes —that is, uncooked clay bricks.
In panel nr. 21 you have a tactile section.
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