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Although the historians linked the old name of the city to Segobriga , the recent discoverment of the original roman city in the Spanish village of Saelices discarded this possibility. The name of "Segovia" is mentioned by Livy in the context of the Sertorian War. The town lies on the main route of the Camino de Santiago de Madrid. The average annual temperature is Decent showers coming from summer thunderstorms help the mountainous area of the province to be rainier than average than most of the central Spanish plateau, which gives the area lush vegetation. All of this make the province a damp corner in the context of the region.
The predominant forms of vegetation in the mountainous areas include pine, evergreen, oak, beech and juniper. Aside from the main city, there are a number of other villages within the municipality of Segovia. The first recorded mention of a settlement in what is today Segovia was a Celtic possession. Control later passed into the hands of the Romans. Hirtuleius died in the fighting.
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During the Roman period the settlement belonged to one of numerous contemporary Latin convents. It is believed that the city was abandoned after the Islamic invasion of Spain centuries later. Segovia's position on trading routes made it an important centre of trade in wool and textiles. The end of the Middle Ages saw something of a golden age for Segovia, with a growing Jewish population and the creation of a foundation for a powerful cloth industry. Several splendid works of Gothic architecture were also completed during this period.
Despite the defeat of the Communities, the city's resultant economic boom continued into the sixteenth century, its population rising to 27, in Then, as well as almost all the cities of Castile, Segovia entered a period of decline.
Only a century later in , the population had been reduced to only 8, inhabitants. In the early eighteenth century, Segovia attempted to revitalize its textile industry, with little success. In the second half of the century, Charles III made another attempt to revive the region's commerce; it took the form of the Royal Segovian Wool Manufacturing Company However, the lack of competitiveness of production caused the crown withdraw its sponsorship in In , the Royal School of Artillery, the first military academy in Spain, was opened.
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This academy remains present in the city today. In , Segovia was sacked by French troops during the War of Independence. During the First Carlist War , troops under the command of Don Carlos unsuccessfully attacked the city. During the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, Segovia experienced a demographic recovery that was the result of relative economic stability.
The population growth experienced during the nineteenth century accelerated steadily beginning around Since the s growth has slowed markedly: The old city contains a multitude of historic buildings both civil and religious, including a large number of buildings of Jewish origin, notably within the old Jewish Quarter. One of the most historically important Jewish sites is the Jewish cemetery, El Pinarillo.
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Among the most important monuments in the city are:. The old main synagogue is a former synagogue, converted into a convent after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in Urban Sculpture in Segovia stars works depicting illustrious figures linked to the city, which wanted to pay tribute in this way, but we can also find several pictures of a religious nature.
One of the most iconic sculptures of the Loba Capitolina sits in front of the aqueduct. A copy of the Capitoline wolf is preserved in the Capitoline Museum and was a gift that Rome gave to the city in during the events of the bimillennial anniversary of the aqueduct. Until a few decades ago, a monument dedicated to the artist Daniel Zuloaga which was installed in , could be seen in the Plaza de la Merced, but it was relocated to the Plaza de Colmenares.
It could not miss this literary group a tribute to Antonio Machado , poet Segovia made his refuge from to , the sculpture as it could be otherwise is located in the garden of his home museum, and was done by Emiliano Barral. A popular legend says that the grooves visible near the top of the columns are the marks left when oxen were tied to them in an attempt to topple them. The Forum was originally a low-lying area of marshland with a tributary of the Tiber running through it; drained in the 6th century BC it began to be built upon, but after the fall of the Empire, the area was abandoned, gradually reverting back to its original state.
Flooding from the river had gone unchecked for over a thousand years by the time the new facade of San Lorenzo was built here, and the door marks what was once the ground level. The excavations down to the level of the Forum during the reign of Augustus were only carried out at the beginning of the 20th century. With the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina behind you, cross the Via Sacra to the small, partially reconstructed, round temple.
This was the Temple of Vesta , goddess of the hearth. It was here that the Vestals guarded the eternal flame which had to be kept burning if Rome were to survive. The current structure dates from the early 3rd century, but is the umpteenth rebuilding, as the Temple was prone to burning down. Given that a Vestal who let the flame go out was punished by being buried alive, it is understandable that they tended to prefer to risk letting the flames get out of hand.
Next to the temple is what remains of the House of the Vestals , rooms around a central courtyard now planted with a few roses where the Vestal Virgins lived. The structure we see dates from the reign of the Emperor Trajan. Their position was such that if a Vestal was to touch the robes of a condemned man as he went to his execution he would immediately be acquitted of all charges. Now little more than the rubble and tufa inner structure of the once spectacular temple, it marks the place of the cremation of Julius Caesar.
Such was the public feeling that we are told that the procession halted in the Forum, instead of continuing to the planned funerary pyre in the Field of Mars, and that people of the Suburra the slum area close to the Forum, modern-day Monti brought furniture and all the wood they could find into the Forum and, against all of the religious rules which stated that funerals should take place outside the city of the living, he was cremated there and then.
Each year on the Ides of March 15th March , Caesar enthusiasts stage a procession through the Forum, and flowers are deposited at the altar. Look behind the fenced off area of the remains of the temple under the modern roof and, depending on the time of year, you will see flowers in various states of decay.
Julius Caesar was assassinated at the temporary home of the Senate at the Curia of Pompey by Largo Argentina , not here in the Forum, because he was in the process of rebuilding the Senate House.
The large brick building further down the Via Sacra, it was completed by Augustus, and was the site of the meetings of the Roman Senate throughout the Roman Empire. Its reasonable state of repair is largely owed to its conversion into the church of St Hadrian, which saved it from the worst excesses of pillaging of materials during the Middle Ages. Apart from a few fresco fragments, barely any trace of the medieval church survives; in the s Mussolini stripped it of the medieval accretions and had the Augustan structure heavily restored.
The Senate is usually open; admire the fabulous floor in opus sectile , a method of inlay which here uses purple porphyry from the eastern desert of Egypt, the green serpentine from Greece, and the yellow giallo antico from North Africa. Directly in front of the Senate House, at the time of writing work is underway on excavations in the area known as the Lapis Niger.
The inscription is only partial, and there are various theories of its meaning, but it is sometimes said to mark the place of the death or the burial of Romulus. Just past the Senate House, the Arch of Septimius Severus is a commemorative arch, erected in honour of the emperor who ruled at the turn of the 2nd and 3rd centuries.
Father of the Severan dynasty, and originally from Leptis Magna in modern day Libya, Septimius Severus was triumphant over the Parthians in modern day Iran. The bronze letters were stripped and melted down during the Middle Ages but the grooves left behind reveal the modification to the inscription. Rising above the Arch is the Capitoline Hill, the rough tufa blocks with the arches are the 1st century B.
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