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Yacimiento romano de Forua

Forua, Gernika-Bermeo, Bizkaia

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 3 Historical milestones

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Yacimiento romano de Forua

Historical milestone · Forua, Gernika-Bermeo, Bizkaia

Roman settlement discovered in 1982 when two red marble altars with Latin inscriptions appeared on the south slope of the Elixalde hill. It covered about 15 hectares and experienced its period of greatest activity in the 2nd century, with a documented presence from the time of the emperors Claudius and Nero (41-68 AD).

41-68 (época de fundación); siglo II (apogeo); 1982 (descubrimiento)

Photo: FLAVIVSAETIVS (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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