Saturday, we went to Tarragona, the old city. It was one of the main cities in spain during the time of the roman empire. It has soooo many roman artifacts still intact like the coliseum, the circus, the forum and other various fortification walls and statues. It was cool to see all that, but i am done learning about roman history now lol it is getting a little bit old after all of these field trips. We got to go into the amphitheater, and walk through the tunnels of the circus so that was all really cool! It was very interesting to see all of these sights, because i had not been aware that spain was so influenced by the roman empire, not only did we get to see these sights, but our teacher taught us so much interesting stuff about each one of the places. We got to walk underground in the circus and learn how the fighters used to take residence under there until teh later years, when poor people would use the separate little rooms to live in . We also got to walk along the streets and Wim ( our teacher) pointed out that a majority of the buildings we were seeing were actually physically made up of pieces of the circus or the ampitheatre, because in the past they were actually much larger. When we went to the forum, we got to climb up to the very top and look out over the city. It was a really cool experience in total and i got to go with a few of my friends in the class which made it a little more enjoyable.
this is the amphitheater/coliseum! the coast line was right behind it , it looked amazing
the town of tarragona was amazing as well, it was such a cute little town with a great personality. It looked a little bit like the tiny winding streets of Italy with a Spanish flair
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