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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

The Museum of the Town of Mérida houses a collection on the Mérida-born sculptor and other pieces that take one on a route through the town's history.

Proserpina reservoir, within easy reach of Mérida, dates back to Roman times and forms part of the region's archaeological ensemble, which has received the UNESCO World Heritage designation.

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.

This 6th-century Visigothic architectural site was used as a hostel and hospital by pilgrims and the poor.

The successor of the former cathedral, the church cathedral of Santa María la Mayor is in the town of Mérida, in the middle of the Plaza de España.