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Girona History Museum

Gerunda, Roman city

Floor mosaic of Can Pau Birol, Bell-lloc del Pla, Girona, 300 AD. Opus tesselatum. Photo by Jordi Puig.

Floor mosaic of Can Pau Birol, Bell-lloc del Pla, Girona, 300 AD. Opus tesselatum. Photo by Jordi Puig.

Gerunda was founded by the Romans in the early 1st century BC. The Roman city came to have about two thousand inhabitants, who lived in a regular urban layout of criss-crossing streets. The town centre was the administrative, economic, religious, and social focal point of a vast, complex territory. The suburbium was the ring of about five kilometres in radius, with large, distinguished villas, which were often more of a large town house than an agricultural estate. This spectacular mosaic, depicting a quadriga race at the Circus of Rome, was the floor of the main hall of a walled villa, probably inhabited by a family of high economic and social standing.

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05. Roman city of Gerunda. The Can Pau Birol mosaic

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