Occilis - Medinaceli (Soria)
Occilis played an important role in the conquest of castilian plateau by the roman legions in the middle of II b.C. century. It was an base of operations and a depository in the Jallon valley, with a great military value, when the Nobilior consul in the year 153 b.C. was preparing the asault to Numancia. The defeat of Nobilior was followed by his susbtitution by new general and consul M. Claudio Marcelo, which in next year reconquest all Jalon valley with Occilis and Nertobriga as most importat cities. |
ARCH OF MEDINACELI
II A.C. Century
Triumphal arch of three gaps. It has 13 m. long and 8,5 high. It is on ashlar work and the great central arch, it rises over two wide buttresses perforated by two little archs that give it a structure that advances the model of triumphal archs with three gaps like Trajano's, Septimio Severo's and Constantine's in Rome, in which the central arch served to wheeled trafic and the laterals to pedestrians. Its mission seems to has been to mark the limits between juridic "conventus" of Clunia and Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza).
| How to go: On the N-II motorway, km. 154. |
