Access Córdoba Three cities on the same ground.
Roman Córdoba
CORDUBA, BEFORE ANY OF IT

Roman Córdoba

A provincial capital that produced Seneca, and left more under the city than on top of it.

UNED Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Corduba

Córdoba was founded as a Roman settlement in the 2nd century BC and became the capital of the province of Baetica. Seneca the Younger and the poet Lucan were both born here.

Most of it is underneath. The bridge keeps the Roman line across the river, the temple was found during work on the city hall in the 1950s, and the Roman theatre — among the largest in the Roman west — is shown in the basement of the archaeological museum.

Seeing the layer

⭐ Do the museum early in a trip. Once you have seen the sequence laid out, the rest of the city stops being a jumble of periods and starts reading in order.

Museo Arqueológico
Museo ArqueológicoJamesNarmer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Puente Romano
Puente RomanoJose María Ligero Loarte, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Calleja de las Flores
Calleja de las FloresKent Wang from Barcelona, Spain, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

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