Baelo Claudia Roman Ruins
Finally made it to the
Baelo Claudia Ruins. It is highly recommended by other campers though all warned us that we would have to pay entry as we didn't have UK passports as part of the EU.
Duly warned we told the nice man in the ticket office that we were happy to pay and it turned out to be the princely sum of three euro total for the adults and the children free. It is amazing how easy things are when one is happy to pay, the example again yesterday when Cádiz was rammed for parking on the street and spaces in the paid parking which cost us a little over two euro for the afternoon.
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It's massive
Museum diorama |
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| Aquaducts |
We skipped the museum and went straight to the ruins as we had no idea of the scale or how long we needed to look around. It is beautifully laid out with walkways and signboards in Spanish and English which was a surprise. The cost alone of the signs must have been massive however, in this day and age a dedicated app would be appreciated for further information. After an hour we went back to the car for our previously assembled baguettes as the signage had been very specific that no food was to be consumed on site and my impressionable young are sticklers for protocol. Had we started with the museum we would have seen the excellent diorama and had a much better appreciation of the scale and layout.
The city was inhabited for eight hundred years from two hundred BC however earthquakes recked their havoc periodically making the city unusable. The aqueducts in the photos on the right show this damage dramatically and as they are up to eight kilometres long it must have been soul destroying. I certainly know how that feels!
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The ground has built up
a couple of metres |
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| Digs ceased for the winter |
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| High Temple Steps |
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| Lunch time ant observing |
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| The forum with shops at the edges and temple behind us |
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| Tuna salt works |
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| Roman, Roman Road |
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| Amphitheatre |
We skipped the museum and went straight to the ruins as we had no idea of the scale or how long we needed to look around. It is beautifully laid out with walkways and signboards in Spanish and English which was a surprise. The cost alone of the signs must have been massive however, in this day and age a dedicated app would be appreciated for further information. After an hour we went back to the car for our previously assembled baguettes as the signage had been very specific that no food was to be consumed on site and my impressionable young are sticklers for protocol. Had we started with the museum we would have seen the excellent diorama and had a much better appreciation of the scale and layout.
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