The Roman city of Segóbriga was the cultural, administrative, and mining center of a large area in the heart of Spain. Pliny the Elder called it “caput celtiberiae.” The city was founded by Julius
Caesar and, thanks to the wealth generated by the lapis specularis mines (sheets of transparent gypsum used to make windows), an ambitious program of public constructions began: a huge forum, the theater, amphitheater, baths, temples, and a circus maximus.
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