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The Cidade Romana de Ammaia is not far from Morvão, so if you're in the area, you might want to visit. Personally, I was disappointed. The small museum is quite interesting, but a lot of the items on display are reproductions. The weather was not good, with heavy rain, which is not the best for walking around an archaeological site where all of the pathways were not paved, which meant walking around guaranteed wet feet. There is not a lot to see in reality. Port Sul, South Gate, is the only section with any remains above ground.…
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Date of experience: November 2020
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The “Roman City of Ammaia”, is located in the Alentejo, in the parish of “São Salvador da Aramenha”, who belongs to the city of Marvão, Portalegre district. The Roman ruins of Ammaia are the ruins of an ancient Roman city, the settlement was probably founded at the end of the first century BC, at the time of Augustus, located in a valley in the heart of the “Serra de São Mamede” Natural Park. In his time, "Ammaia", in the Roman province of Lusitania, possessed an administrative territory that encompassed a large part of the current district of Portalegre and which also extended to today's Spanish territory. Identified and studied from the mid-1930s, its ruins are classified as a National Monument since 1949. To visit you have enough parking space in front of the building where you are entering for the visit and who contains also various ancient objects, the biggest part of the visit is made on the outside.…
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Date of experience: October 2020
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Good site, for what could be major touristic attraction. A large Roman site, but with little work done. A small onsite museum is worth the visit. We were lucky to have one of the members of the archeological field team guide us.
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Date of experience: June 2019
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We saw some information about the site when visiting Marvao, and decided to visit. Although we arrived late we had enough time to visit the small, but interesting museum.The curator was very helpful and suggested that we watch the introductory video ( in English ), first and then look around the museum before it closed, as we would still be able to access the remains of the town after closing time. Although none of the artefacts had labels in English, we were familiar enough with Roman artefacts to be able to identify most things. The site itself was quite extensive, with a partly reconstructed gate and a temple podium amongst the remains. It was somewhat overgrown, not as 'manicured ' as some sites in the UK, but definitely worth a visit…
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Date of experience: March 2018
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The museum is very interesting with a beautiful collection of Roman jewels and coins. Further a interesting film in English. The museum is wheelchair friendly. The outside sites are not. Hard to imagine such a large city existed there at the time
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Date of experience: May 2018
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