Visigothic kingdom

Coracho

Today: Lucena, Spain

Years: 409–711

The spot south of Lucena where in 2003, in the trial digs for the A-45 motorway between Córdoba and Málaga, a basilica and its cemetery came to light, beside the Roman road that joined Corduba and Malaca. It is one of the oldest Christian churches excavated in the peninsula: it was founded in the 4th century, in the time of Constantine, and remodelled in the 6th and the 7th. In 2005 it was taken down stone by stone and rebuilt on a council plot in the polígono de la Viñuela, in Lucena itself, where it has been open since 2008.

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Basílica paleocristiana de Coracho (Basílica de Coracho): Church, 6th to 7th century

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