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Roman city of Ercávica

Cañaveruelas, La Alcarria Conquense, Cuenca

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Roman city of Ercávica

Monument · Cañaveruelas, La Alcarria Conquense, Cuenca

Site of the ancient Celtiberian and Roman city of Ercávica, located five kilometres from Cañaveruelas above the Buendía reservoir. Already mentioned in the year 179 BC during the campaigns of Tiberio Sempronio Graco, from the 2nd century BC onward it took on a Roman character, with walls, a forum, a basilica, temples and baths, and under Augustus, around 15-14 BC, it attained the rank of municipium, with its own mint that struck coinage under Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula. It reached its peak in the 1st and 2nd centuries, went into decline from the 3rd century, and was abandoned between the 4th and 5th centuries. The archaeological park, declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), can be visited via a paved and signposted five-kilometre path from Cañaveruelas.

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