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The National Roman Art Museum (MNAR) shows the visitor different sides of daily life in the province of Hispania.

Its collection has made this museum one of the most important of its kind.

The collection of Visigoth pieces in this museum brings together relics from Mérida from the 4th-8th centuries, as the capital of the Diocesis Hispaniarum and as the metropolitan capital of the province of Lusitania

Find out how the town of Mérida developed from Roman times to the Visigoth era.

Mérida's Roman past is still very obvious from the many monuments remaining, reflecting life in one of the Empire's provincial capitals.

The town of Mérida contains one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, of which the Roman theatre forms part.

Mérida was supplied with water by three main aqueducts in Roman times. One of them was the one called Rabo de Buey, or also San Lázaro.

A walled fortress of impressive size and beauty commissioned by Abderramán II in the year 835.

The setting for fights between gladiators and wild beasts in Roman times, a large part of the structure of this amphitheatre is preserved intact today.

This arch was erected as part of the structure providing entry to a temple for imperial worship It is now the only one left of the three that existed formerly.