In the time of Augustus, the city acquired a privileged legal status as evidenced by some inscriptions that mention positions of the municipal administration (aediles, duoviri …).
The human presence has been attested from the republican period, having detected the typical Campanian ceramics throughout the site. Identified as the goddess of fertility, most of the votive offerings from Torreparedones correspond to representations of pregnant women imploring “a childbirth without problems.” II d.n.e, the devotees flocked to the sanctuary distraught by the healing powers associated with the goddess Caelestis Juno Lucina venerated in this place. Located outside the settlement walls, from the s. The undulating plateau was surrounded by a powerful wall reinforced at regular intervals with towers that project outwards, covering an area of 10.5 h, and it is already feasible to give it the title of city.
VI b.c., Torreparedones became an oppidum, that is, a fortified town in height, one of the most prominent in the Cordovan countryside, reaching its maximum extension. Here a small community dedicated to livestock and cereal-type agriculture settled as evidence, the hand mills and flint teeth that were used for harvesting. The first testimonies of the human presence in Torreparedones date back to the Neolithic (late IV millennium BC). The visit to Torreparedones is a walk through 4000 years of history, through a city with an unknown name, although the researchers point out that we are in the neighborhood that Plinio mentioned as Ituci Virtus Iulia. to the sixteenth century, the human presence in this settlement was continued, having known its greatest splendor in the Iberian and Roman times, when it achieved the status of a colony or municipality. Thanks to archaeological excavations, we know that at least from the second millennium B.C. In the Torreparedones Archaeological Park and in the Historical and Archaeological Museum, there is an application for individual visits. Guided tours: The guided tour must be booked in advance at the tourist information office.ĪPP. € 1 for groups of more than 10 people, retirees, pensioners and children under 12 years old.
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