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Caesaraugusta is the Roman colony that grew into modern Zaragoza, founded in 14 BC and named directly after Emperor Augustus.
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Caesaraugusta is the Roman colony that grew into modern Zaragoza, founded in 14 BC and named directly after Emperor Augustus. What makes it distinctive isn’t a single freestanding ruin, but the way the Roman city still sits exactly where it was built. You visit it by going underground, beneath today’s streets, into a sequence of small municipal museums that reveal the forum, theatre, public baths, and river port in situ. They’re all clustered in the historic centre, just minutes apart on foot, so the experience feels like walking through layers of the same city rather than hopping between isolated sites.
Über Caesaraugusta
Caesaraugusta was founded in the late 1st century BC on the site of the Iberian settlement of Salduie and populated by Roman veterans after the Cantabrian wars. It became a privileged Roman colony and an important administrative and commercial centre on the Ebro River. Unlike many Roman sites that sit outside modern cities, Zaragoza grew directly over Caesaraugusta.
Today, the remains are presented as the Ruta de Caesaraugusta, a circuit of four city‑run museums. Beneath Plaza de la Seo, the Forum Museum shows the political and commercial heart of the colony, including sewers, market spaces, and water systems from the Augustan period. The Theatre Museum is built around a 1st‑century Roman theatre that once seated about 6,000 people, with walkways above the original seating and stage. The route is completed by the Public Baths Museum and the River Port Museum, which explain daily life, hygiene, and river trade tied to the Ebro.