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In this photograph in La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos we can see a perspective, from the door, of the Greco-Roman ruins of Empúries, in the town of L’Escala, in the Alt Empordà region.
Empúries was founded in the year 575 BC. C. by settlers from Phocaea as a commercial enclave in the western Mediterranean. The ruins of ancient Empórion reveal a past linked to the sea, in the Gulf of Roses.
Empúries has two different areas: the Roman city and the Greek one. The entrance to the site, managed by the Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya, includes access to these two areas and a small museum. The most emblematic piece of the complex is the Asclepius of Empúries, a 2.20 meter marble statue sculpted in the 2nd century BC. c.
The Greek city is located near the sea. It is the oldest area of ??the site, although the visible part of the ruins belongs to the era in which both cities (Greek and Roman) had already been unified.
Further on, there are vestiges of several important buildings, including the Asclepeion, the Serapeion, the salting factory, the Macellum, the Agora, the Stoá, an early Christian basilica, several noble houses and the mosaic of a hall. banquets.
To the north of the Greek city is the museum of the ruins of Empúries. Among its objects we will see tools from the Bronze Age, a letter from the 6th century BC. C. written on lead, amphorae, vessels and coins. And he.
Leaving the museum, on the right there is a path between pine trees that ascends towards the Roman city. In the first sector you can see the remains of the public baths and several domus from the 1st century BC. c.
In the second sector of the Roman city are the vestiges of the most important buildings, with the forum (1st century BC) as the central axis.
