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Proxecto de agrupación de centros "Grecia e Roma nas túas mans": IES Sáenz de Buruaga de Mérida, IES 9 de octubre de Carlet, IES García Barros A Estrada.
Proxecto de agrupación de centros "Grecia e Roma nas túas mans": IES Sáenz de Buruaga de Mérida, IES 9 de octubre de Carlet, IES García Barros A Estrada.
Merida's Cathedral of San Ildefonso is the second oldest in Mexico, having been constructed in 1561, many of its stones coming from the ancient Mayan temples of the city that were destroyed by the colonial regime.
It is a large and somewhat austere building with a fortress-like façade and a barrel-vaulted interior with elaborately coffered ceilings. The cathedral was sacked during the Mexican Revolution in 1915 under the orders of a socialist general resulting in the total loss of the original decoration and furnishings. The replacement furnishings are quite simple though the massive crucifix that has become the new focal point of the interior is most impressive.
The cathedral was closed when we first explored the city centre in the late afternoon but open again when we returned in the evening.
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Mérida was founded in the year 25 BC, with the name of Emerita Augusta (the name Mérida is an evolution of this) by order of Emperor Augustus, to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana river. Two veteran legions were the former settlers: V Alaudae and X Gémina. The city became the capital of Lusitania province, and one of the most important cities in the Roman empire. Mérida preserves more important ancient Roman monuments than any other city in Spain (including a triumphal arch of the age of Trajan); because of this, the "Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida" is a World Heritage site.
The Romans arrived in the Iberian peninsula during the Second Punic war in the 2nd century BCE, and annexed it under Augustus after two centuries of war with the tenacious Celtic and Iberian tribes (from whom they copied the short sword) along with the Phoenician, Greek and Carthaginian coastal colonies, becoming the province of Hispania. It was divided into Hispania Ulterior and Hispania Citerior during the late Roman Republic; and, during the Roman Empire, Hispania Taraconensis in the northeast, Hispania Baetica in the south and Lusitania (province with capital in the city of Emerita Augusta) in the southwest.
Hispania supplied Rome with food, olive oil, wine and metal. The emperors Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius and Theodosius I, the philosopher Seneca and the poets Martial, Quintilian and Lucan were born in Spain. The Spanish Bishops held the Council at Elvira in 306. The collapse of the Western Roman empire did not lead to the same wholesale destruction of Western classical society as happened in areas like Britain, Gaul and Germania Inferior during the Dark Ages, even if the institutions, infrastructure and economy did suffer considerable degradation. Spain's present languages, its religion, and the basis of its laws originate from this period. The centuries of uninterrupted Roman rule and settlement left a deep and enduring imprint upon the culture of Spain.
The first hordes of Barbarians to invade Hispania arrived in the 5th century, as the Roman empire decayed. The tribes of Goths, Visigoths, Swebians (Suebi), Alans, Asdings and Vandals, arrived to Spain by crossing the Pyrenees mountain . They were all of Germanic origin. This led to the establishment of the Swebian Kingdom in Gallaecia, in the northwest, and the Visigothic Kingdom elsewhere. (No distinction was made under law between Spaniards and Germans.) The Visigothic Kingdom eventually encompassed the entire Iberian Peninsula with the Catholic conversion of the Goth monarchs. The famous horseshoe arch, which was adapted and perfected to great effect by the later Muslim era builders was in fact originally an example of Visigothic art.