Alvaro Fernández, Albert Borràs, Cesar Bravo
In 250 BC, Greeks and Carthaginians came across the Mediterranean to Iberia. Amilcar Barca was the Carthaginian that founded the city and he named it Barcino. The Greeks and the Carthaginians brought trade to the city.
They built the city on Monts Taber, a little elevation near the sea, easy to defend and with a good communication.
THE ROMANS
The Romans became the rulers of Barcino in 200 BC. The Romans built the walls around the city. Tarragona (known as Tarraco) was made a provincial capital; fine monuments were built, the remains of which can still be seen in and around the city, and an infrastructure of roads, bridges and aqueducts came into being. Barcelona was of less importance, although in 15 BC the Emperor Augustus granted it the lengthy name of Colonia Julia Augusta Faventia Pia.
The Roman cities were very well planned and its construction obeyed to detailed and precise plans. In the entrance routes, were the funeral spaces, constituted by monuments of different measures and types, were aligned parallel to the way. An example of this is the rest that can be seen in the seat of Villa of Madrid, dated in centuries I and II .
The construction of water supply from canalizing the sources or rivers located near the city, by means of a construction that helped to save the unevennes, also the aqueducts, that allowed the water arrived in the city, was stored and distributed to the public sources, the particular industries or houses. In the case of Barcelona we know the existence of two aqueducts that are visible in the base of the tower of the wall that is nearer the Cathedral.
Iberia was invaded around AD 400 by the Goths and Barcelona become its capital in 531 AD.
Plane of Rust-colored
1.- Aqueducts 2.- decumana mountain Door 3.- decumana Door of sea 4.- Seat of Sant Jaume 5.- Temple of Augusto 6.- Zone of spas 7.- Building of City council 8.- Palace of Generalitat 9.- Area of Forum 10.- Cathedral 11.- Avenue of Cathedral 12.- Street Tapineria 13.- Seat Ramon Berenguer 14.- Street Navarrese Sots-Tinent 15.- Seat dels Traginers 16.- Building nº 5 of the street Correu Vell 17.- Avinyó Street nº 19 18.- Street of the Call nº 1
19.- Street Banys Nous nº 16 20.- Street of the Palla
- In continuous the conserved layout of the wall.
- In discontinuous the hypothetical layout of the wall and the
disposition of the urban plot.
- the darkened streets correspond to the two minor main streets.