Saturday, June 10, 2006

Feels a bit Moorish


Tarragonna was a big city when the Moors conquered Spain in the 700s. Theres heaps of ruins in the city that range from Ancient Roman ampitheatres to Moorish walls. In the ampitheatre by the beach, you can see the layers of different civilisations putting their mark on the building. In the ampitheatre where they used to kill Christians in the 1st Century, they later on built a chapel to honour those that died in this place, and then later on it was used an a monastery and a prison aswell. You can even see the cross shaped chapel in the middle. Spain is full of castles and arches and bridges and walls that stem from the Romans and the Moors of Africa.

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