Juan Luis Lara

The National Roman Art Museum (MNAR) shows the visitor different sides of daily life in the province of Hispania.

The collection of Visigoth pieces in this museum brings together relics from Mérida from the 4th-8th centuries, as the capital of the Diocesis Hispaniarum and as the metropolitan capital of the province of Lusitania

The Museum of the Town of Mérida houses a collection on the Mérida-born sculptor and other pieces that take one on a route through the town's history.

Its collection has made this museum one of the most important of its kind.

Over 4,000 years of history attest to the importance of this burial site which has survived virtually intact to the present day

The town of Mérida contains one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, of which the Roman theatre forms part.

Mérida was supplied with water by three main aqueducts in Roman times. One of them was the one called Rabo de Buey, or also San Lázaro.

This partially preserved massive aqueduct was one of the large works at Emerita Augusta for supplying water to the city.

A walled fortress of impressive size and beauty commissioned by Abderramán II in the year 835.

The setting for fights between gladiators and wild beasts in Roman times, a large part of the structure of this amphitheatre is preserved intact today.