Julióbriga: the end of the Cantabrian tribes
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It is still fall, but winter announces its arrival. The mountains are hidden among dense fog spitting cold air hitting our faces walking bustling streets that seem to watch their little visitors. The town acts as a protective Retortillo of the most important Roman remains are preserved in Cantabria, the ancient city of Julióbriga. Walls and columns where households rose, roads where it traded, vestiges of a Forum that attests to the importance that peaked at. And there where the imagination is not enough to recreate such a scenario, the museum, Julióbriga Domus does the rest, enlightening with recreations, dates and facts that may seem buried in the centuries after waiting. A few kilometers from the site of the Roman begins Julióbriga part of Fisheries to die in Barcena de Pie de Concha. A day to dream about the life of the past two millennia.
The first stop on the road is a short distance from Reinosa, south of Cantabria and neighboring lands of Castile. In the valley is immense stage campurriano. Mountains and hills, villages that adorn the slopes with its stone houses, a city that suffered the brunt of the winds and winter snows every year, people accustomed to the hardness of a region that forced the ancient Cantabrians to work the very survival and granted the pride of one who achieves. Around year 29 A.C. Roman legions arrived here with the glory of an empire that stretched. Found a town, the Cantabrian, installed on ancestral customs, that the hardest part of the year surviving on acorns and other fruits that were in the woods.
The fight was fought for freedom so loved and dreamed then and now. The topography harmed Roman troops accustomed to fighting in open terrain. The breakthrough enquistó for three years, so that the Emperor Augustus decided to make themselves on offense back in 26 A.C. His arrival with seven legions north of Burgos, three of which, formed by 5.200 soldiers each- engaged in what became known as the Cantabrian Wars, assuming the conquest over the whole area in the 19 A.C.
The most important Roman remains Cantabria
We walked through the remains of Julióbriga, Roman city born in the Year 15 A.C. sheltered from the conquest and ended up assuming a magnet for people from the area, facilitating their integration into the dominant empire. The site is scattered in various parts of town Retortillo. To the untrained eye can hardly be supposed old walls in the weeds and debris where once existed columns. It should recreate the mind the stately homes that stood on the foundations found and the humble homes from which the stays can be distinguished thanks to the lines that draw the stones that made up walls and walls. You can also recreate the Forum, in the center of town remembered its importance and presence in a way of the emperor's authority.
The landscape is immense. As a prelude to the snow-capped mountains
A cool breeze accompanies our journey as a horse grazes beside what remains of the public center Julióbriga, tribute outside the performing name Julio Cesar, adoptive father of Emperor Augustus. The landscape is immense. As a prelude to the snow-capped mountains in sparsely vegetated plains stand allowing you to enjoy the view of the Ebro Reservoir. The still water and the bridge that crosses the narrow part would be unimaginable two thousand years ago when everything around was forest that were cleared and burned to gain land for agriculture and livestock. We completed the visit accessing Domus Museum, that recreates life in Roman times through the rooms of a house classic, well as utensils and other remains found at the site. Historical narratives are necessary to understand the importance of reaching the place and just can not imagine watching the ruins that have come.
The Roman
The next destination is Fishery, locality where the Roman road begins. Originally Portus reached Blendium, the current Suances, that served as a port for goods transported via. Are preserved only a few 7 kilometers to reach the village of Barcena de Pie de Concha. We started walking on the same stones others did millennia, which produces a strange sensation, perhaps of respect and admiration. In some sections the passage of time has modeled a irregular road, sometimes almost imperceptible. The deciduous oak and chestnut have carpeting the silent and immortal via a spectacular blanket of color. One admires one from the box nature gives. The views from hills which succeed, the smell of a wet season, low forest groves, infinite sheets browns, green and brown palette arising from a teacher or the stillness of solitude among so much beauty. During just three hours of travel under our feet walk feeling the stones placed by an empire that sailed across Europe and from Latin or sense of justice and peace in Rome provided a link between peoples and nations that share neighborliness.
Barcena de Pie de Concha marks the end of our walk through memory and by a nature that the Cantabrians understand his, and defended to death in many cases, preferring suicide by cutting his throat or poisoned before the surrender. The afternoon had begun to wane, the sun to retreat and lose some degree thermometer. The chimneys smoke over the rooftops of Barcena, we passed the provision of firewood each house to face the winter builds. It's Sunday, Some windows are lit and people are collected by the fireside. Time to go with the memory of the fascinating landscapes of this land and its history, as far as captivating. Maybe it's time to dream with the legions of Augustus, the Cantabrian tribes, with Julióbriga, with the locations visited and those that lie ahead. To remember who we were and fables about who we become.
Eduardo De Winter
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On the highway Santander - Palencia, Hemos taking direction Reinosa South, follow signs Bolmir and Julióbriga.
In the same highway after taking off from Pesquera easily find directions to the Roman.
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-It is very interesting to visit the Domus Museum Julióbriga. Admission 3 Euros and gives access to the museum itself besides the Romanesque Interpretation Centre in the nearby town of Villacantid and the archaeological remains of the Roman villa and baths Camesa. We visit museums until a month after buying the entry.
-In Pesquera find the Interpretation Centre of the Roman that perfectly illustrates the way as it was originally, their use and full tour.
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