Barcino (Guess what this is?)

Barcelona was once a huge and very prosperous roman colony that was the foundation for the modern city we know today. Barcino, the roman name for the colony was at the center of trade in the iberian peninsula and in Spain at the time of the Romans. Even the roman stones front the former city have been used to make buildings that you can see in modern architecture today. The colony of Barcino was a major sea trade port, like it is today, and a major center for the transport of olive oil in amphora, which were then broken near the site of the center of Barcino today, making a artificial hill, if I may, completely out of amphora shards! At the center of the colony was the temple of Augustus, the emperor that founded the colony back when the Roman empire, if I'm right, was just getting into the age of Pax Romana, or the 200 years of peace in the empire. Here is the monument to the colony in one of the many plazas in Barcelona today!