TARRAGONA
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I thonk taht people that we live in this city, are some privileged
by all the sentidos:
by their climate, their history and monuments of the Roman time. Their beaches, zonas, (as Salou, Cambrils, the pineda etc).
Se supplements, with the proximity of Barcelona, the one pirineo, etc.
For me it is a very special place, and I really invite to those people
who doesn't know it to that come to visit her. Sure not you they will be sorry.

BRIEF HISTORY


This is located to the northwest of Spain, country of the community of Catalonia. Port to the sea Mediterranean, to which the river ends Francoli. One exists industrial important activity, like they are the chemical factories, and a great one refinery of petroleum, what has created a good acividad of the port. The tourism, is a very important part of the economy

Guarda remains of their Roman past, like it is the amphitheater, tiers of the circus, the defensive walls: In the proximities there is an aqueduct of double arcade. Their cathedral romanica, with their Gothic cover. Also esixte in the city an archaeological museum that harbors an important collection of sculptures Roman

En her, the Iberian settled down that but it takes they were conquered for the Romans have they made the capital of the county Citerior. They denominated it Tarraco. But it takes her they invaded the Germanic towns in the century V. Later on, it was occupied by the mulsulmanes. After one period of decline, resurges in the XII century, when it was occupied by Ramón Berenguer III the one big, count from Barcelona in 1109. It suffered a deep decadence again in the XVI and XVII centuries. Rehavilitandose definitively by the middle of the century XX.