Roman Ruins V

Valencia Roman Ruins

For twenty years, from 1985 to 2005, the Plaza de L’Almoina in downtown Valencia was the site of a large-scale archaeological dig. Researchers were astounded as they discovered walls, wells, pottery and coins from the city’s Arab and Visigoth periods and even older. The discoveries made at L’Almoina date all the way back to the Valencia’s founding by the Romans, in the 2nd century BC.

Once the archaeologists had finished up, Valencia converted the dig into a museum. Underground, you can see fragments of the city’s first Roman buildings, including thermal baths, a temple dedicated to water gods, and a granary. There are entire sections of the streets which once formed the main crossroads of Valentia (as the city was known to the Romans), as well as votive wells into which their offerings were thrown