Conimbriga, is an old settlement existing since the Copper Age (3300 to 1200 BC), which was an important center during the Roman Empire (10,000 and 15,000 inhabitants) and which after the barbarian invasions, remained inhabited until the 6th century, when Episcopal see went from Conimbriga to Coimbra. Conimbriga is seventeen kilometers south of Coimbra, and was next to the road that came from Sellium (Tomar) to Aeminum (Coimbra). Despite its condition of natural defense, this city has a point of vulnerability that is to depend on its water supply from an aqueduct with 3 km. That could be the main reason for their abandonment, since their survival would be at risk in the event of siege in the middle ages. Part of Conimbriga (part of the Condeixa-a-Velha houses) survived thanks to the existence of a small fountain located there.
This is the 3D model based on the rigorous reconstruction drawings by Jean-Claude Golvin from the Flavian forum in Conimbriga, provided to me by the Museum of Conimbriga. The model was synchronized with the 360º panoramic photograph of the current...
Public baths, "Palestra". It functioned as a training school and also as a place for male social interaction, where conversations about literature, philosophy and music were so well received. Generally, but not necessarily, they were attached to t...
The house of the fountains is a large Roman residential building whose original construction, dating from the beginning of the first century, extended over two floors, thus making use of a natural slope in the area of the city where it was establi...
The central peristyle was the essential part of the house, decorated by garden boxes built on the impluvium, embroidered with mosaics and fountains. The main compartments of the house that opened here were the exedra to the south, decorated by a m...
The central peristyle was the essential part of the house, decorated by garden boxes built on the impluvium, embroidered with mosaics and fountains. The main compartments of the house that opened here were the exedra to the south, decorated by a m...
To the north of the triclinium was a set of compartments that seem to have constituted the private part of the lord of the house. The mosaics here were of remarkable quality and theme and there was direct access to the garden. Another secondary pe...
The phallic vessel insula occupies a long extension along the city's main street, a block whose irregular shape was certainly dictated by the pre-existing cadastral that the Romans found and which did not change substantially except for the large ...
