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The Greco-Roman fair of the Triumvirat Mediterrani de L’Escala has celebrated its 27th edition and in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we did not want to miss it to leave this photographic testimony.
It has been lived with a spectacle of fire, the fight of gladiators showing their combat techniques, with a demonstration of Roman crafts and with forty activities that the City Council and the MAC-Empúries have organized with a large influx of public.
In Roman antiquity, triumvir was each of the three people who formed a commission or association to govern the republic.
Many of the aspects of the political, administrative, social, legal and religious life of Rome were governed by this collegiate procedure.
Three ancient peoples with different cultures lived together in Empúries: the Greeks, the Iberians and the Romans. The Greco-Roman fair of the Triumvirat Mediterrani allows “reviving this cultural, playful and recreational richness that will bring us closer to the life of antiquity”.
With a population of around 10,000 inhabitants, L’Escala is a municipality in the Alt Empordà region where the ruins of the ancient Greco-Roman city of Empúries can be found.
The name of L’Escala comes from the time of the Romans, Scala, which means dock or place where ships dock.
