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The Cathedral, perched on the highest point of the hill, is the city’s most emblematic building and home to Tarragona’s rihest Collection of mediaeval art.
The façade of this building is very evidently eye-catching. The dimensions of the building underline its importance and the high regard that the Teresian nuns enjoyed in the city at the start of the century.
The forum was the hub of daily life. A vast square, it was rimmed by the most important buildings in the city: the curia, the basilia, temples and countles shops.
In the mid-3rd century A.D. a burial ground was started near one of the roads leading out of the city. The cementery grew considerably following the burial there of the remains of Saint Fructuosus. The early Christian community turned his tomb into a...
The Roman circus was the site of horse-drawn chriot races, usually between two-horse chariots, known as bigae, or fourhorse chariots, known as quadrigae.
This funeral monument, located just off the former Via Augusta, 6 km outside Tarragona heading towerd Barcelona, was built out of large ashlars, has a square floor plan and dates back to the first quarter of the 1st century A.D.
The first stone of the convent was laid in 1896, on the land which would be occupied by the high altar. In the shape of a parallelogram, it had a ground floor housing a patio which was a cloister, and four stories when initially it was planned to have...
The architect Josep María Pujol i de Barberà positioned the house, in 1913, almost one of the city’s natural viewing points, looking out over the sea in style reminiscence of a fairy-tale castle.
This is one of the city’s areas that best retains its mediaeval atmosphere. Presided over by the Cathedral, it is the site of several large Gothic structures, including, of speial note, the ancient rectory and the Casa Balcells.
Lluís Domènech i Montaner used the symbolism of a single Wessel to house remains of King Jaume I. This is not just any vessel; it is a eminently beautiful an luxurious on of porphyry aorned with mosaic.
In the 2nd century B.C. a great wall was built around Tarraco, delimiting the municipal boundaires. The wall originally ran some 3500 metres. Today approximately 1100 metres remain, bordering presentday Tarragona’s Old Quarter.
