Archaeological site · Castulo
Castulo
Today: Conjunto arqueológico de Cástulo, Linares
- Place
- Castulo (Linares)
- Kind
- Archaeological site
- Built
- 1st to 2nd century
- What remains
- Ruins
- Visiting
- Open to visit · In situ
The ruins of the Ibero-Roman town, some five kilometres south of Linares, with an interpretation centre to receive visitors. Since 2011 the digs of the Conjunto Arqueológico have brought public buildings to light: a possible temple of the 2nd century with stuccoed walls, the Mosaic of the Loves, a carpet of more than 750,000 tesserae from around the 1st or 2nd century, and another mosaic of the 1st century in a building thought to have served the imperial cult, perhaps in honour of Domitian, destroyed in the 2nd.