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Carranque is a town in the Toledo province, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is located in the Alta Sagra area of the province bordering the province of Madrid. Capital Toledo Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 3rd 79 463 km² 15,7% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 9th 1 782 038 4,3% 22,43/km² Demonym – English – Spanish Castilian-Manchego castellano-manchego Statute of Autonomy August 16, 1982 ISO 3166-2 CM Parliamentary representation – Congress seats...
Capital Madrid Area - total - % of Spain Ranked 12th 8 028 km² 1,6% Population - Total (2003) - % of Spain - Density Ranked 3rd 5 527 152 13,2% 688,48/km² Demonym - English - Spanish Madrilenian madrileño/a Statute of Autonomy March 1, 1983 ISO 3166-2 M Parliamentary representation Congress seats...
Archeological park
Carranque contains a Roman site protected as an archeological park by the Castile-La Mancha government. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
It is located by river Guadarrama, near a Roman road. It seems to be near the lost city of Titultiam There are three main buildings, the ruins of a Roman mill and a modern interpretation building. Guadarrama is a town in the Community of Madrid in Spain. ...
A Roman road in Pompeii Road Construction on Trajans Column The Roman roads were essential for the growth of their empire, by enabling them to move armies. ...
The buildings date from the late 4th century and are thought to be related to the Hispania-born emperor Theodosius I. As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400. ...
Roman theater at Mérida; the statues are replicas Hispania was the name given by the Romans to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal, Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar) and to two provinces created there in the period of the Roman Republic: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior. ...
Modern history In 1983 a local peasant, Samuel López Iglesias, found a series of mosaics while plowing in the fields known as las Suertes de Abajo. Those mosaics belong to the so-named villa of Maternus]]. Mosaic is the art of decoration with small pieces of colored glass, stone or other material. ...
The interpretation facility exhibits objects found during the excavations
Buildings
Building A: Basilica A Theodosian-era building that takes as models the governatorial palaces. The hall was surrounded with 32 monolithic marble columns from the emperor's private quarries in Chios in Greece (known as portasanta or chium) and Iscehisar and Afyon in Anatolia (phygium or pavonazzeto marble). Soon it was used for the cult and burials. The Visigothic arrival brought some changes. It was also used during the Islamic age. The Temple Knights used it as an abbey or monastery. Something that is monolithic is something created in one piece, resembling a monolith such as an obelisk. ...
Chios (Greek: Χίος; Turkish: Sakız Adası; alternative transliterations Khios and Hios, see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea 5 miles off the Turkish coasts. ...
Afyonkarahisar (Turkish for the black opium castle) is a city in western Turkey, also known simply as Afyon (i. ...
Migrations The Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe (the Ostrogoths being the other). ...
Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given the Iberian Peninsula by its Muslim conquerors; it refers to both the Caliphate proper and the general period of Muslim rule (711–1492). ...
It appears as the hermitage of Santa María de Batres in the Relaciones de Felipe II (1576), with most of the area used as a cemetery. It was used as such until the 17th century. The head of the Roman building, as the hermitage of Santa María de Abajo ("Saint Mary of the lower side"), lasted until around 1920 when it was dynamited to serve as construction material for the modern town. According to the New Testament, Mary (Judeo-Aramaic ×ž×¨×™× MaryÄm Bitter; Arabic مريم (Maryam); Septuagint Greek ΜαÏιαμ, Mariam, ΜαÏια, Maria; Geez: ማሪያáˆ, MÄryÄm; Syriac: Mart, Maryam, Madonna), was the mother of Jesus of Nazareth, who at the time of his conception was the betrothed wife of Saint Joseph (cf. ...
Its decoration shows the power of the contractor. There were plates of marble, red porphyry, and green serpentine, wall painting, opus sectile and mosaics with glass and golden-leaf tiles. Porphyry is a very hard igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass. ...
Serpentine Serpentine is a group of common rock-forming hydrous magnesium iron phyllosilicate ((Mg, Fe)3Si2O5(OH)4) minerals; it is also often rich in other metal ores, including chromium, manganese, cobalt and nickel. ...
Opus sectile refers to an art technique popularized in Rome where materials were cut and inlaid into walls and floors to make a picture or pattern. ...
Anechdotically, the footprints of a caliga and a dog paw are visible on the mortar. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
The plant, part of the head (the chapel) and some columns are now visible.
Only remains of the plant were found. A Nymphaeum, in Greek and Roman antiquities, is a monument consecrated to the nymphs, especially those of springs. ...
Its location (a little knoll over the river) opens its interpretation as a monumental cistern with a fountain. Its shape reminds of the temples of the water nymphs. It was built with opus caementicium (stone and mortar) and opus testaceum (brick). Mosaics covered the floor. A cistern (Middle English cisterne, from Latin cisterna, from cista, box, from Greek kistê, basket) is a receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. ...
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Building C: Villa of Maternus The Roman villa was the first remain found. It was built in the Theodosian era over earlier production facilities. The declive was compensated with a terraced construction over around 1,200 m2. It is shaped as around a peristylum patio. The Roman Empire contained many kinds of villas. ...
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The hypocaust heating and running water hint of the richness of the owner that becomes luxury when admiring the mosaics, assembled by at least three workshops, two of which took the unusual pride of signing their work. Ruins of the hypocaust under the floor of a Roman villa. ...
Other rooms are covered with opus signinum (chalk and crushed bricks).
Mosaics
Sleeping room of Maternus The cubiculum has a mosaic text in which the worker wishes Maternus prosperity. This Maternus is thought to be Maternus Cinigius, uncle of the emperor Theodosius. The mosaics depict: Two Argonauts before a hunt. ...
Actaeon by Titian Actéon (Actaeon) is a Pastorale in the form of a miniature tragédie en musique in six scenes by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Opus H 481, based on a Greek myth. ...
For the asteroid, see 88 Thisbe. ...
In Greek mythology, Amymone (the blameless one) was a daughter of Danaus. ...
For other uses, see Neptune (disambiguation). ...
Meeting room The oecus, where the owner held meetings and banquets showing off his social status, was ended by a raised exedra. The mosaic depicts the death of Adonis. Two dogs named Leander and Titurus are also represented. An exedra adopted by James Cameron for a neoclassical interior space, at the Hermitage In architecture an exedra is a semicircular recess, headed by a half-dome, which is usually set into a buildings facade. ...
A 19th-century reproduction of a Greek bronze of Adonis found at Pompeii. ...
Dining hall The hypocaust of the triclinium was complemented by ceramic tubes in the walls that pulled the hot air upwards. The mosaic depicts the devolution of the slave Briseis to Achilles as narrated in the Iliad. In Roman Era dwellings (particularly those of the wealthy), triclinia were standard issue. ...
In Greek mythology, BrisÄ“is (Greek Î’Ïισηίς) was a Trojan widow (from Lyrnessus) who was abducted during the Trojan War by Achilles upon the death of her three brothers and husband, King Mynes of Lyrnessus, in the fight. ...
The Wrath of Achilles, by François-Léon Benouville (1821–1859) (Musée Fabre) In Greek mythology, Achilles, also Akhilleus or Achilleus (Ancient Greek ) was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest warrior of Homers Iliad, which takes for its theme, not the War...
The Iliad (Ancient Greek , Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. ...
A tilted floor formed a semicircular fountain with a mosaic of the god Oceanus, featuring crab antennas and claws and a wavy beard. The water effect was completed by blue-glass windows. Oceanus or Okeanos refers to the ocean, which the Greeks and Romans regarded as a river circling the world. ...
References - Spanish Wikipedia as of September 19, 2006.
- Versión accesible del sitio Web del Parque Arqueológico de Carranque (in Spanish).
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