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:''This article is about the city. Italica is also the name of the cultivar group
of the species ''Brassica oleracea'', commonly known as Broccoli.''
The city of 'Italica' (Spanish: 'Itálica'; north of modern day Santiponce, 9 km NW of Seville, Spain) was founded in 206 BC by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus in order to settle Roman soldiers wounded in the Battle of Ilipa, where the Carthaginian army was defeated during the Second Punic War. The name Italica bound the colonia to their Italian origins.
Italica was the birthplace of Roman emperor Trajan. Hadrian was generous to his settled town, which he made a ''colonia''; he added temples, including a ''Trajaneum'' venerating Trajan, and rebuilt public buildings. Italica’s amphitheater seated 25,000 spectators—half as many as the Flavian Amphitheatre in Rome— and was the third largest in the Roman Empire. The city's Roman population at the time is estimated to have been only 8000. The games and theatrical performances funded by the local aristocracy, who filled the positions of magistrate, were a means of establishing status: the size of the amphitheater shows that the local elite was maintaining status that extended far beyond Italica itself.
The modern town of Santiponce overlies the "old city" of Republican times founded by Scipio and the pre-Roman Iberian city. The well-preserved city of ruins seen today is the ''nova urbs'' magnificently laid out under Hadrian's patronage.
A shift of the Guadalquivir River bed, probably due to siltation— a widespread problem in antiquity that followed removal of the forest cover—left Italica isolated, high and dry. The city started to dwindle as early as the 3rd century. Later Seville grew nearby, and no modern city covered most of Italica's foundations. The result is an unusually well-preserved Roman city of Hispania Baetica, and unexpected riches in the ''Museo Arqueologico'' of Seville, with its famous marble colossus of Trajan. In Italica, cobbled Roman streets are visible, and mosaic floors still ''in situ''. The excavation of Italica began in 1781 and continues.
★ Italica in Spain
★ Italica: Roman city
of the species ''Brassica oleracea'', commonly known as Broccoli.''
The Roman amphitheatre at Italica seated 25,000
Italica's amphitheatre pit
Pits were filled with water for the ''naumachia''
A walkway in Italica
A hallway that circles the ampitheatre
The House of the Birds complete with mosaic floor
The House of the Planetarium
The city of 'Italica' (Spanish: 'Itálica'; north of modern day Santiponce, 9 km NW of Seville, Spain) was founded in 206 BC by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus in order to settle Roman soldiers wounded in the Battle of Ilipa, where the Carthaginian army was defeated during the Second Punic War. The name Italica bound the colonia to their Italian origins.
Italica was the birthplace of Roman emperor Trajan. Hadrian was generous to his settled town, which he made a ''colonia''; he added temples, including a ''Trajaneum'' venerating Trajan, and rebuilt public buildings. Italica’s amphitheater seated 25,000 spectators—half as many as the Flavian Amphitheatre in Rome— and was the third largest in the Roman Empire. The city's Roman population at the time is estimated to have been only 8000. The games and theatrical performances funded by the local aristocracy, who filled the positions of magistrate, were a means of establishing status: the size of the amphitheater shows that the local elite was maintaining status that extended far beyond Italica itself.
The modern town of Santiponce overlies the "old city" of Republican times founded by Scipio and the pre-Roman Iberian city. The well-preserved city of ruins seen today is the ''nova urbs'' magnificently laid out under Hadrian's patronage.
A shift of the Guadalquivir River bed, probably due to siltation— a widespread problem in antiquity that followed removal of the forest cover—left Italica isolated, high and dry. The city started to dwindle as early as the 3rd century. Later Seville grew nearby, and no modern city covered most of Italica's foundations. The result is an unusually well-preserved Roman city of Hispania Baetica, and unexpected riches in the ''Museo Arqueologico'' of Seville, with its famous marble colossus of Trajan. In Italica, cobbled Roman streets are visible, and mosaic floors still ''in situ''. The excavation of Italica began in 1781 and continues.
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★ Italica in Spain
★ Italica: Roman city
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