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The New Mithraeum Database

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Filtering by Country: Spain gave 115 results.

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Vil·la dels Munts (Altafulla)

Aristocratic villa near Tarraco, capital of Hispania Tarraconensis, associated with Caius Valerius Avitus and a Mithraic sanctuary.

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Thirmarum (Trillo)

Thirmarum is recorded as a findspot for Mithraic material in Tarraconensis.

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Capera (Cáparra)

Capera was a Roman town in Lusitania, today associated with Cáparra.

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Iria Flavia (Padrón)

Iria Flavia became an important settlement in northwestern Hispania and later evolved into the modern town of Padrón.

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Santo Domingo de Silos (Burgos)

Burgos is a city in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain.

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Asturica Augusta (Astorga)

Astorga is a municipality and city of Spain located in the central area of the province of León, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León, 43 kilometres southwest of the provincial capital.

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Italica (Santiponce)

Italica was an ancient Roman city in Hispania; its site is close to the town of Santiponce in the province of Seville, Spain.

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Toletum (Toledo)

Toledo is the repository of more than 2000 years of history.

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Lucus Augusti (Lugo)

Today Lugo was the capital of the Capori tribe. It was conquered by Paullus Fabius Maximus and named Lucus Augustus in 13 BC after the positioning of a Roman military camp.

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Igabrum (Cabra)

Cabra is a municipality in Córdoba province, Andalusia, Spain and the site of former bishopric Egabro.

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Iluro (Cabrera de Mar)

Ituro, now Cabrera de Mar, was an important trading town and the capital of the Laietani, an Iberian people, until Roman times.

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Benifaió (Benifaió)

The Roman remains of Benifaió, or Benifayó in Spanish, are located on the outskirts of the city. Of particular interest is a rustic villa inhabited between the 1st and 4th centuries according to the numismatic and ceramic remains found.

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Augustobriga (Muro de Ágreda)

Roman town founded on the site of the Celtiberian settlement of Arekorataz, beneath modern Muro de Ágreda in northern Hispania.

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Barcino (Barcelona)

Barcelona is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. Founded as a Roman city, in the Middle Ages Barcelona became the capital of the County of Barcelona.

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Alejandro Jiménez Hernández

I am an archaeologist specializing in Building Archaeology and Roman show buildings. I have researched the Mithraic nature of the Elephant Tomb in the Roman Necropolis of Carmona (Seville, Spain).

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Malaca (Málaga)

Málaga is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

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Tarraco (Tarragona)

The capital of Hispania Tarraconensis, Tarraco is the oldest Roman settlement on the Iberian Peninsula.

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Israel Campos

Scholar in Mithraic Studies

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Emerita Augusta (Mérida)

Emerita Augusta was founded in 25 BC by order of the Emperor Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana River. The city became the capital of the province of Lusitania and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.

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Baetulo (Badalona)

The area was populated by Iberians, but the origins of Baetulo date back to the 1st century BC, when the Romans founded the city on the Rosés hill. Baetulo was famous for its vineyards, which produced wine for export throughout the Empire.

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