The Romans arrived to Hispania in 218 b.C through the Mediterranean Sea. They disembarked in Emporium (north of Catalonia). Barcino (Barcelona) was founded.

The Romans arrived to Hispania in 218 b.C through the Mediterranean Sea. They disembarked in Emporium (north of Catalonia). Barcino (Barcelona) was founded in 15 b.C by the emperor Agust.

The city was built between Collserola Mountain and the Mediterranean sea.

Via Augusta was and still is a main street in the city.

The city has got the square structure usual of the Roman colonies.

The Romans came from Italy.

Domus Insula•House property of a family.•It usually is of one floor.•It doesn’t have connection with the outside, with few, small windows.•All the rooms of the house were oriented to the inside yard.•Air and light is obtained thanks to the central courts.

•Renting flats.•High buildings, of four or five floors communicated by stairs.•They had many balconies and windows opened to the outside .•The air and the light comes from the outside.•The rooms of every house don´t have a fixed use and their function depends on the needs of every tenant.•The ground floor is in use for shops, workshops and stores.

The shops (Tabernae) were in the principal streets of Rome and Barcino, in the front part of the houses (Domus) or of the residential blocks (Insulae).

The bread was very important in the Roman diet and there were many cake shops in the city. As well as it is now in the Spanish, Mediterranean diet.

The pubs were very popular places to eat and drink, but also to play. These pubs also served food. The “caupona” were offering housing, and the term “popina” covered a wide range of establishments.

They served wine mixed with water, herbs, honey or resin, appetizers, olives, soups with bread, seafood and meat stews.

The restaurants were decorated with geometrical designs in yellow, red and blue.

Outside the restaurants there were benches in order that the clients could sit down to take a fresh drink or some fast snack.

The clothes of the Romans changed if it was winter or summer.

It could be: - Toga pura- Toga praetexta- Toga picta- Toga purpura

Women wore a long tunic. In the public acts they wore a long garment called stola, of different colors, embroidered in the ends and held around the body with a belt.

It is the first name, generally the first-born one had the same as his father.

The most common ones: Marcus, Aulus, Caius, Lucius, Quintus, Sextus, Tiberius, Titus…

For us it is the first surname, and refers to the family in which one was born.

Eg: Cornelius (the family Cornèlia), Aemilius (the family Emília)…

It is a second surname, it was a type of nickname that was related to the trade.

Eg: Cicero (Cigró), Claudius ( coix)…

The cheapest system was based on an interchange of products. The metals used in coins were: copper, argent and gold.

The most interesting coins were:

- bronze: l’as - silver: sesterci and

denari - gold: l’auri

Food They ate...

Lentaculum (Breakfast)

Bread and cheese. Toast of bread with garlic, oil and salt, sponge cakes with wine.

Prandium (Lunch) Bread, cold meat or sausages

Merenda (Tea) Fruit, they drank wine mixed with honey, which was served warm.

Cena (Dinner) - Appetizer: wine with honey, vegetables, mixed salads - Main dish: meat or fish, or both.- Dessert: dried fruit, pastry, fresh fruit

• Augusto • Tiberio• Calígula• Claudio• Nerón• Trajano• Adriano• Dioclesiano• Constantino

In roman cities we find different constructions:

It was the public square of the city.

It had a rectangular shape.

It was placed between the principal streets, cardo and the decumanus.

In Barcelona we find it in St. Jaume Square.

It was built dedicated to the worship of a divinity. It was a building of rectangular floor surrounded by columns.

It was the place where the courts administrated justice and bought bandages of goods.

They performed dramatic representations. It was a building of semicircular floor.

It was the building where they disputed the struggles of gladiators and animals. It was a building of elliptical form.

It was the building where they fought with carriages.

It is a rich family house of ground floor organized around an open air yard called atrium.

They were blocks of renting flats for the poor people.

They were the public baths.

They had three rooms with swimming pools: Frigidarium,

Tepidarium and Caldarium.

The Necropolis was the cemetery of roman cities. The graves were situated on the track that arrived to the city.

The aqueduct was the channel that brought the drinkable water to houses in the city.

Barcino (Barcelona) had two aqueducts that took the water outside the city.

Barcino was surrounded by ta wall. The wall was built in the I century but in century IV and V it was restored.

• PRIMARY (7-12 years old): The teacher taught reading, writing and also mathematics.

• SECONDARY (13-14 or 15 years old): The teacher taught readind,to understand texts of the great classical authors. But they also learnt history, mathematics, mythology, music…

• SUPERIOR (17-20 years old): The teacher taught oratory (speech) to pupils in order that the boys could behave and speak with facility in the public life.

• Eva Gatoo• María Salvatierra• Marta Teles• Cynthia Vila

Class: 4th ESO-ATeacher: Inés CandialDate: 12- 02- 2007