Archaeological site · El Bovalar
El Bovalar
Today: Yacimiento arqueológico del Bovalar, Seròs
- Place
- El Bovalar (Seròs)
- Kind
- Archaeological site
- Built
- c. 401 to 711
- What remains
- Ruins
- Visiting
- Open to visit · In situ
A visitor sees the footings of a three-aisled basilica, some twenty-six metres by twelve with a triple east end, the baptistery in a side room, the graves of slabs and sarcophagi around it and, pressed against it, the two- and three-roomed houses of the hamlet. Its dating spans the whole era: the church is thought to be of the late 4th century, the baptistery is of the 6th, and the last phase, with the church in use by the villagers, belongs to the final years of the kingdom of Toledo. The baptistery, with its canopy on six columns, is shown in the Museu de Lleida; on the site the stones and the grave slabs remain.