Italica

The Italica is a 15 minute bus ride from Samay Feetup Hostel in Sevilla in the pueblo of Santiponce, but it worths any effort you can made to see it and go back in the ages. Birthplace of Roman emperors Trajan and Adrian. The amphitheater is the most important site of the ruins. You're also able to walk the old streets as you tour the ruins of houses, public buildings and various objects of art. Many of the pieces can now be found in the Museo Arqueológico or within the palaces and homes of the aristocracy in Seville. Columns supporting the Giralda were also taken from the ruins of Italica.

Italica, a city founded by Scipio "Africanus" in the year 206 BC, as a military camp to retrieve wounded soldiers at the Battle of Ilipa, against the Carthaginians, when the Second Punic War came to an end.

After various vicissitudes of history and urban reforms, the city grew until it reached its peak in the first part of the second century AD, coinciding with the figures of Trajan and Hadrian, his most illustrious sons as emperors of Rome. In the last centuries of Roman domination, Italica was losing its importance, but remained as the core of the population until after the Islamic invasions (there are references to the Muslim Taliqan) from there, it was gradually abandoned to their fate, leaving as a haven for vagrants and criminals and becoming a quarry to the construction of houses and palaces in the nearby Seville.

Today, most of the city lies buried under the Santiponce population, although it has managed to excavate a large area that would correspond to what is known as Urbs Nova, a major urban expansion at the time of Hadrian. Indeed, the party visited Italica focuses on the streets and plants domus and collegium of the area, the baths and especially theater and amphitheater.