Italica

I apologize because I should have done this post about a week ago, but totally forgot until now. Last Saturday we had our first excursion to the ruins of Italica. Italica was a Roman city founded around 200 BC and is about 9 miles from Seville, and all that is left of it today are the ruins. We are lucky to have Dr. Inglis with us on all of our excursions because he knows anything and everything about history.

When you first arrive at the city you see a huge stadium/ampitheater where they had gladiator fights. We got to see where are the animals would have been, and the fans, and also all the things that the movie Gladiator did incorrectly. It was so amazing to walk on all of this history.

We later moved on into the actual city, where you can see remnants of houses and courtyards. Many of the walls have since been destroyed, but the many of the tile floors are still intact, and are quite beautiful.

It turns out that one of the main reasons Italica is no more is because they were mysteriously dying. It was later found out that they were using lead pipes for plumbing...so they were dying from lead poisoning and didn't even know it.

I am going to add a few pictures to give you a better idea of exactly what we saw