My first sight-seeing excursion was to Italica, a city just several kilometers distance from Sevilla; it was founded by the Romans during the empire's reign over Spain, the culminating area called Tartessos. The city itself is isolated from the surrounding town, which I found very interesting.
We spent about two hours on foot exploring the grounds. The ruins ranged from statuettes and small home foundations, to the greater aqueduct system and Colosseum used to host festivals and speeches from political officials.
The entire grounds were impressive in the sense that for an area settled almost 2000 years ago, the Romans had such a profound handle on urbanization and agroculture. I plan to travel to Italy while abroad to visit the more preserved, well-known ruins, but was surprised to find such an interesting display of concrete imperialism prominent so close to my surroundings.
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