The French Way of Saint James - Astorga
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This teeming city is the center of Maragatería and place where two paths of pilgrims meet: French way and Via de la Plata. Is this a city with over two thousand years of history which has been declared a historical set of cultural interest like the other four monuments and enjoys the fertile valley of the River Tuerto and a magnificent geographical situation.
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- Aedes AugustiMore information
Temple intended for the imperial cult and dedicated to the memory of Emperor Augustus. It is a Roman concrete building with marble floor and double colored geometric motifs, located on a hill in the old...
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Public building intended for the bathroom, where users followed a pre-established itinerary through a series of rooms with different temperatures: frigidarium (cold bath), tepidarium (warm room) and caldarium...
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- The Forum (South Portico)More information
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- The Pit CampMore information
On the hill of the current town of Astorga has been located the so-called 'trench of the camp', a vestige of the defensive system of a Roman military camp founded in the Cantabrian Wars (29-19 BC) and...
- Cathedral of AstorgaMore information
This is one of the most representative buildings of the maragata capital, a noble, loyal and bimillennial town in the province of León, a crossroads and melting pot of cultures. It is part of the dioceses...
- Episcopal Palace / Palace of GaudiMore information
Projected by Antonio Gaudí after the fire that destroyed the former Episcopal palace of Astorga in 1886, it is a neo-Gothic modernist building that brings together forms typical of a stately mansion, a...
- Roman sewersMore information
The sanitation network of the old Astúrica is well known and presents a good state of conservation, in fact, some of its branches are still in use. The Roman Route includes the walk inside a sewer, belonging...
- The CuriaMore information
Rectangular room whose head ends in an apse. It is located occupying a central position in the portico that closes the forum from the west and, although it has traditionally been interpreted as a place...