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Roman Mausoleum of Layos

Layos, Montes de Toledo, Toledo

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Roman Mausoleum of Layos

Monument · Layos, Montes de Toledo, Toledo

Image of Layos, not of the place itself.

The site of El Vizcaíno extends on both sides of the Camino de Ajofrín, on the right bank of the Guajaraz stream, next to one of the branches of the road that linked Toletum with Emerita Augusta, only two leagues from Toledo. It contains the remains of a necropolis with common ware and Hispanic sigillata pottery - among them a fragment showing a warrior armed with a shield and spear -, coins and bronze and iron objects. In the El Castillejo area, a mausoleum or family tomb stands partially preserved, up to two metres high, already noted in the 17th and 18th centuries, from which several decorated Palaeochristian sarcophagi came, today divided between the Royal Academy of History and the Frederic Marès Museum in Barcelona. It was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 2007.

Photo: Carmen Martín Tejeda (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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