{"id":274,"date":"2011-07-17T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2013-11-26T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T22:50:57","slug":"ancient-greek-city-empuries-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/ancient-greek-city-empuries-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Greek City: Empuries, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"
Empuries, Spain<\/p>\n
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A short trip up the Costa Brava from Begur, lies an ancient city. A city so ancient, it has housed humans since the 10th C BC. It has the most beautiful view of the Mediterranean and one can completely understand why so many early human civilizations chose this spot to live.<\/div>\n
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In the 7th<\/sup> C BC Greeks from the Phocaea area built a city called Emporion<\/i><\/b> on this spot. The city\u2019s remains are being currently excavated. Behind the Greek city, the Roman\u2019s built their own city in the 1st<\/sup> C AD. This city has not yet been excavated.<\/div>\n
However, the remains of both cities exist today within one large ancient city on the Costa Brava.<\/div>\n
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The city is a major world archeological site and I must say, the most amazing one I have ever visited. I have been to Rome, not Greece though\u2026but visiting this site, yesterday, I have indeed visited both ancient Rome and Greece in one stop.<\/div>\n
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The pics are all from the Greek city and date from 5 C BC to the 1 C AD.<\/div>\n
A few of the pics are from pieces in the onsite museum that have already been excavated from the cities.<\/div>\n
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Empuries<\/i><\/b>, as it is called in Catalan, was first discovered by archeologists in 1908 AD and had been busily excavated ever since.<\/div>\n
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I cannot explain just how beautiful and amazing it was to walk amongst the ruins of a city over 2000 years old\u2014to see the tiled floors of homes and the a gentleman\u2019s club (where young single Greek men met to drink wine and socialize).<\/div>\n
I feel so blessed to have visited such a place and encourage those who visit the Mediterranean coast to pay Empuries a visit.<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Me, sitting on 3rd C BC Greek steps, with god of medicine watching over me.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Empuries lies right on the Mediterranean Sea.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Remains of a Greek column.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Peter inside the courtyard of the Greek cities’ largest home–surrounded by remains of columns (2nd C BC).<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Remains of what I guessed was a Greek bench?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Roman graves found on the far North side of the Greek city from I believe, 4th C AD<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Floor pattern<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Peter exploring the Greek city remains.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Floor from what was once a single gentleman’s club in ancient Emporion– 2nd C BC.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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5th C BC, Greek water filter system.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0Statue of the sacred god of medicine, Asklepios found in the therapeutic and religious center–2nd C, BC (copy remains in the city as the original is now in the museum).<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Me, exploring the Greek city.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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The stone wall I am sitting on is from 5th C, BC<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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The museum, positioned between the Roman and Greek cities.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Tile picture found in one of the Roman homes.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Dolls found in a child’s tomb in the Greek city–5th C BC<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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The original marble statue found in the Greek city, Asklepios– the god of medicine, 2nd C, BC<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Note: the straps on his sandals are really cool.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Greek jetty–it was a busy Mediterranean trading port.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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The outside wall that borders the Greek city.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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