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Excelent web about architecture in Hispania!
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www.spanisharts.com/arquitectura/i_roma.html

Great one, not limited to military architecture, and it´s in English AND Spanish!

Hours of joy! :wink:

One of my fauvorite roman bridges ever:

Alcantará´s

[Image: Puente%20Alcantara.jpg]
(it´s hard to find a photo with something to see the enormous scale of that bridge Confusedhock: )


And the most humble inscription I have ever seen (But he deserved it, I think Big Grin )
Quote:At the southern side -left bank of the river- there is a little temple in altis. At its dintel an inscription let us read the architect's name -Caius Iulius Lacer- and the words "who will live so much as the world would live".

Another example:

Tarraco´s walls
[Image: tarragona_murallas_plano.jpg]
-This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how
sheep´s bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
[Image: escudocopia.jpg]Iagoba Ferreira Benito, member of Cohors Prima Gallica
and current Medieval Martial Arts teacher of Comilitium Sacrae Ensis, fencing club.
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#2
An excellent site...thanks for posting it !! Smile D
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)

"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
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#3
Iagoba,

Totalmente maravilloso...thanks for sharing.

Smile
aka: Julio Peña
Quote:"audaces Fortuna iuvat"
- shouted by Turnus in Virgil\'s Aeneid in book X just before he is utterly destroyed by Aeneas\' Trojans.
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#4
Si es que tengo una madre que pa qué 8)

(My mother found it while looking stuff for her history classes Big Grin )
-This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how
sheep´s bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
[Image: escudocopia.jpg]Iagoba Ferreira Benito, member of Cohors Prima Gallica
and current Medieval Martial Arts teacher of Comilitium Sacrae Ensis, fencing club.
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#5
There are what look like foundation blocks in the gorge at Toledo, could be Roman, although they look like what is called in Greece 'Cyclopean' stonework I think! Interesting resemblance to the gorge tho!
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
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