The Temple of Augustus

In most of the cities in Spain, the soil under it is full of archeaological remains. This includes old roman cities, colonies and trading outposts made out of rubble, marble and brick. In most cities, roman ruins are right at the feet of the old parts of the city. For instance in the city of Barcelona, there are multiple layers of Roman remains lying around, including part of the old roman walls that used to surround the old colony which I will talk about later. Anyways, the most important find that the people of Barcelona had found was the Temple of Augustus, which if you know the layout of any roman colony, is at the heart of the roman colonies, at the intersection between the main 2 roads that traveled east and west and north and south. With this find, we are able to approximate the location and placement of other buildings of the old roman colony and make a map for ourselves of what it looked like those many years ago.