Necropolis · Tarraco

Necrópolis paleocristiana de Tarraco

Today: Necrópolis paleocristiana de Tarragona, Tarragona

Place
Tarraco (Tarragona)
Kind
Necropolis
Built
3rd to 5th century
What remains
Site or museum
Visiting
Open to visit · In situ

The most important open-air late Roman burial ground in the Roman West, beside the Francolí, with some 2,051 graves from the middle of the 3rd century to the 5th. It grew around a basilica dedicated to Saint Fructuosus and his deacons, which disappeared when the tobacco factory was built, the work that uncovered it in 1923. There are burials in amphorae and under tiles, marble sarcophagi, mosaic grave covers and three crypts. Closed from 1992, its in situ display area reopened on 18 May 2013, with an interpretation centre.

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