Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Tarragona, Spain

The Plaça dels Infants is a work of Tarragona protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.

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The Roman Theatre of Tarraco is a Roman theatre in the Roman colonia of Tarraco –present-day Tarragona, Spain–, capital of the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis. Built at the end of the 1st century BC, in the time of Augustus, in the area of the local forum and the port, it was used for Roman theatrical performances.

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The Metropol Theater is an indoor theater in the city of Tarragona, currently located at number 46 of the Rambla Nova.

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Casa Castellarnau is a manor house in the city of Tarragona protected as a cultural asset of local interest. It is currently the headquarters of the Tarragona History Museum. The building was built inside what in Roman times was the administration square of the Provincial Forum. Excavations carried out in 1993 in the courtyard uncovered a whole series of structures from the Roman period corresponding to the podium of the portico of the great square representing the province.

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The Teatre Auditori del Camp de Mart is an open-air theatre, covered with a candle, inspired by the examples of classical Greek theatres. It has a grandstand in the form of an amphitheatre, a rectangular stage and an orchestra pit that can be used as stalls, in a set covered by a sail or tensile structure. It is located in the gardens of the ancient Camp de Mart of the Roman city. Inaugurated in 1970, it is a project by the municipal architect of that time, Manuel Lamich Fontanet. It seems that the project was inspired by the Greek Theater of Epidaurus of the Argolis, in the south of the Peloponnese, a work of the fourth century BC by Polycletus the Younger.

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The Camp de Mart is a work of Tarragona protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.

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Sant Miquel del Pla is a church in the municipality of Tarragona, the current sub-headquarters of the Royal Brotherhood of Jesus Nazarene, protected as a cultural asset of local interest. The construction that can be seen today corresponds to the eighteenth century (1734) with a classicist baroque style, but its origin is located in the twelfth century.

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The Diocesan Museum of Tarragona is a museum of the Archdiocese of Tarragona, located in the cathedral complex of the Cathedral of Tarragona.

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The Sala Trono is a theatre in the city of Tarragona. It opened its doors in 2003 in the Plaza de Dames i Vells with capacity for 60 people. It programmed a type of small-format and intimate theatre, with simple scenographies. It closed its doors in 2017 with the play 'That's all' due to the limitation of capacity and continued as a producer It reopened in a new space in the Metropol, thanks to an agreement between the entity and the City Council.

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The Primatial Cathedral of Tarragona is a Roman Catholic church in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. The edifice is located in a site previously occupied by a Roman temple dating to the time of Tiberius, a Visigothic cathedral, and a Moorish mosque. It was declared a national monument in 1905.

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Sant Pau del Seminari is a chapel in the municipality of Tarragona protected as a cultural asset of local interest. It is one of the oldest and best preserved testimonies of Tarragona's Romanesque. The chapel is mentioned in a document from the early thirteenth century. Linked to Santa Tecla la Vella and with decorative details of the cloister enclosure.

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Santa Tecla la Vella is a chapel in the municipality of Tarragona protected as a cultural asset of local interest. Located in what is now the garden of the old cathedral pit, it is a construction that reuses materials from an older work that some scholars have linked to the old cathedral. The data that emerge from a correct interpretation of the building should help to find out one of the repeated questions of the medieval study of Tarragona: the building of the cathedral and the canonical dependencies.

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The Casa Canals de Tarragona is an eclectic work of Tarragona protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.

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The National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona is a public museum located in the city of Tarragona focusing on its rich historical heritage and ancient remains. It includes archaeological findings of Tarraco's Roman and Early Christian past, as well as a library. The museum's origins lay in the 19th century, making it the oldest of its kind in Catalonia, with some collections assembling objects found from the 16th century onwards, but with most discoveries having taken place in the last 150 years.

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The Church of the Trinity is a baroque church in Tarragona protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.

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The Museum of Modern Art of Tarragona (MAMT) is located in Casa Martí, at Carrer de Santa Anna, 8. It was created in 1976 by the Tarragona Provincial Council with the aim of promoting the study and knowledge of modern and contemporary art and, at the same time, to conserve and display its artistic heritage and share it with the public. It has an auxiliary library, a documentation centre and a photographic archive. The most important work in the museum is the Tapestry of Tarragona, by Joan Miró. It is a large project that Miró created together with Josep Royo. The painter gave this work to the Red Cross Hospital in 1970 to thank Dr. Rafael Orozco for the care he offered to his daughter. When the hospital closed, he gave the tapestry to the Museum of Modern Art.

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The Church of Nazareth is a church in the old town of Tarragona, protected as a cultural asset of local interest. Although nothing remains of the primitive building of the thirteenth century, the sixteenth-century temple and the successive restorations allow us to understand the dynamics of constructions in the city of Tarragona.

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The provincial forum of Tarraco is a Roman archaeological site in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, encompassing an area of 18 ha. Together with other Roman remains in the city it makes the Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco, which was listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2000.

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The circus of Tarraco was located within the city's pomerium, taking advantage of land that, since its foundation, had been owned by the state. Located in the upper part of Tarragona, parallel to the Rambla Vella, and in some parts, it maintains an exceptional state of conservation. It is the building where the horse races were held, as well as the beam and chariot races with a capacity for 20,000 people, where the carriage races were held. It was built during the rule of Emperor Domitian and was in operation until the fifth century AD.

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The Tarragona Amphitheatre is a Roman building in ancient Tarraco that is currently relatively well restored, managed by the Tarragona History Museum. It is part of the archaeological site of Tarraco, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. It is considered a Cultural Asset of National Interest.

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The Tarragona Theatre, located on the Rambla Nova in the city of Tarragona, is an Italian-style theatre with stalls, an amphitheatre, and a capacity of 698 seats.

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The Church of Sant Agustí is a church in the municipality of Tarragona protected as a cultural asset of local interest. From the old convent of Sant Agustí, which previously belonged to the Jesuits of Tarragona. However, over the centuries only the artistic value linked to works of ancient Roman art remains, together with certain characteristic features of the Escola del Camp.

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The Monument to the Heroes of 1811, popularly known as The Striped, is a work in Tarragona by Antonio Julio Rodríguez Hernández, known as Julio Antonio. It is located on a stone podium with three bronze sculptures in the Plaza de Julio Antonio, at the intersection of the Rambla Nova in Tarragona with the streets of Ixart and Cañellas.

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The Centenary Fountain is located in Tarragona, in the middle of the Rambla Nova. It was inaugurated in 1954 and is the work of the sculptor Josep Viladomat i Massana. It is currently located at the intersection between Ramón y Cajal Avenue and Pau Casals, Rovira i Virgili and Cristòfor Colom streets, where it acts as a roundabout and orders traffic. It is made of stone from Hontoria (Burgos) and consists of four independent sculptural elements formed by the figure of a man and an animal gushing water from its mouth, both surrounded by details in the form of vegetation.

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