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ALCADARA (Town) EXTREMADURA
Alcadara Caceres, Spain.
Town on the Tajo 62 km NW of Caceres where an immense bridge carried the Roman
road from Norba to Conimbriga. The road may be traced from the Alcatntara bridge
to the Segura bridge over the Erjas at the Portuguese border, also built by the
Romans. The Alcaintara bridge, 194 m long, spans the river with six arches; it
is almost perfectly symmetrical. The maximum height is 71 m, of which 14 m are
the triumphal arch in the center of the bridge. This arch, disfigured by restorations
of the 16th c. and earlier, bears an inscription dedicated to Trajan (CIL II,
759), in whose reign the bridge was built. The imperial titles are those of the
year A.D. 104. The columns of the arch also bore inscriptions, now lost, listing
the municipalities which paid for the bridge (CIL II, 760). At the S side is a
small shrine on the pediment of which is another inscription of Trajan (CIL II,
761) giving the name of the architect of the viaduct, C. Iulius Lacer.
L.G. Iglesias, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Jan 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
CACERES (Town) EXTREMADURA
Norba Caesarina (Caceres) Caceres, Spain.
Town established as a colony ca. 35 B.C. by the proconsul C. Norbanus Flaccus, which received the cognomen Caesarina in memory of Julius Caesar. It is mentioned by Pliny (4.117), Ptolemy (2.5.6), and in an inscription (CIL II, 694).
Some stretches of the Roman wall and parts of its towers were incorporated
into the later Moorish wall, and the E gate of the cardo maximus survives almost
intact. The Roman wall consisted of large granite ashlar blocks, not all regular,
but well dressed, especially the voussoirs of the E gate. The lower half of the
circular tower at the NE corner of the wall is Roman. Just E of the gate is a
small bridge over the Marco gully; the original plan is Roman, as are a number
of its ashlar blocks. Caceres also contains small cemetery areas of different
periods. Sculpture and inscriptions are housed in the Archaeological Museum, and
Roman materials incorporated into later buildings are still visible in the town.
L.G. Iglesias, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Jan 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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