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Alcántara

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temple

Alcántara

Pleiades ID: 255966

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Description

The Roman temple of Alcántara is a well-preserved structure located at one side of the Alcántara Bridge in Extremadura (Spain). The building, dating to A.D. 103, is the work of Caius Iulius Lacer. The lintel inscription indicates the structure was dedicated to Trajan.

See Further

  • BAtlas 26 D2 Alcántara
    Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43970336.
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  • TIR Emerita 27
  • Wikipedia (English) Roman temple of Alcántara
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Roman temple of Alcántara.
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  • CIL 02, 00761

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Citation Information

Jr., F.H. Stanley, and R.C. Knapp. "Alcántara" Pleiades, 12 March 2025. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/255966.
Last modified: 2025-03-12T15:02:32Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

ALCÁNTARA Cáceres, Spain.

Town on the Tajo 62 km NW of Cáceres where an immense bridge carried the Roman road from Norba to Conimbriga. The road may be traced from the Alcátntara bridge to the Segura bridge over the Erjas at the Portuguese border, also built by the Romans. The Alcáintara bridge, 194 m long, spans the river with six arches; it is almost perfectly symmetrical. The maximum height is 71 m, of which 14 m are the triumphal arch in the center of the bridge. This arch, disfigured by restorations of the 16th c. and earlier, bears an inscription dedicated to Trajan (CIL II, 759), in whose reign the bridge was built. The imperial titles are those of the year A.D. 104. The columns of the arch also bore inscriptions, now lost, listing the municipalities which paid for the bridge (CIL II, 760). At the S side is a small shrine on the pediment of which is another inscription of Trajan (CIL II, 761) giving the name of the architect of the viaduct, C. Iulius Lacer.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

P. Gazzola, Ponti romani (1963) 133-34; C. Fernández Casado, Historia del puente en España (1962) fasc. 560-69; J. R. Mélida, Catálogo Monumental de España. Provincia de Cáceres (1924) 118-38.

L. G. IGLESIAS

Nearby Points of Interest

Castro del Castillejo

5383m away

Location

39.7216942, -6.8915219