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The Cella Vinaria of Vallmora

Teià, Maresme, Barcelona

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The Cella Vinaria of Vallmora

Historical milestone · Teià, Maresme, Barcelona

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The archaeological site of the Vallmora plain, known in Latin as the Cella Vinaria, is the only Roman winemaking centre turned into a museum in Catalonia, and it was active between the 1st century BC and the 5th century AD, with treading floors, beam presses and fermentation vats that produced wines exported in amphorae across the western Mediterranean. The excavations of 2003 and 2004 brought to light a lead seal with a Latin inscription mentioning a slave named Epictetus, who later, as a freedman, rose to the post of sevir augustalis in Roman Barcino; the original seal is kept at the Museum of Wine Cultures in Vilafranca del Penedès. Since 2009 the site has had a wine-tourism and archaeology centre for visitors.

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