Holiday Rentals in Spain for the Roman Tombs in Cordoba

Taking into account there is so much history, would it really matter where you take your HOLIDAY RENTALS IN SPAIN? The first traces of human presence in the region of Cordoba remains a Neanderthal man dating from 32,000 BC. In 8th century BC, during the Tartessos period, pre-existing urban settlements existed there. The population gradually learned metallurgy, mainly working with copper and silver. The first historical mention of the settlement date however came with the Carthaginian expansion across the Guadalquivir, when general Hamilcar Barca Kartuba named the city Karl-Juba. The name means “City of Juba” the latter being a Numidian commander who died in a battle nearby. Cordoba was conquered by the Romans in 206 BC. In 169 BC the Roman consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus founded a Latin colony by the existing Iberian colony. Between 143 and 141 BC, the city was besieged by Viriato. A Roman forum is known to have existed in the city in 113 BC.

Cordoba is a city in Andalucia, southern Spain, and the capital of the province of Cordoba. Originally of Iberian and Roman antiquity, during the Middle Ages it became the capital of an Islamic caliphate. The old city contains many architectural reminders of when Cordoba was the capital of Hispania, hidden under the Roman republic and the capital of the Betic Hispania during the Roman Empire. Evidence also shows that Qurtuba was the capital of the Islamic Caliphate of Cordoba, covering most of the Iberian Peninsula. It was understood that in the 10th century and early 11th century, Cordoba was the most populous city in the world and over the centuries it was the intellectual centre of Europe. Today, it is a modern medium-sized city; its population in 2008 was over 325,000.

Cordoba has a Roman mausoleum of the ancient structure called Jardines de la Victoria. It is a monument to the deceased of cylindrical shape which corresponded to a group of funerary monuments built by the Republicans built in the 1st century AD. It was discovered in 1993 during archaeological excavations. The monument contains a chamber tomb housed in the basement, frames and the crenulated parapet. These unusual structures in Iberia must have been designed by a Roman architect, because of similarities with other mausoleums in Italy. Its size suggests it belonged to a wealthy family. It is located near the road, which connected the ancient city of Hispalis, now Seville, and the western port of Puerta de Gallegos.

There are many other monuments in Cordoba so bear in mind when on your HOLIDAY RENTALS IN SPAIN the history of the many places that you are likely to visit while here.

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