"The key find is a stretch of pavement made of slabs of Montjuic stone (rock extracted from the Montjuic mountain that overlooks Barcelona and has been the source of building material and infrastructure for the area since the pre-Roman Iron Age). It dates to between 15 and 10 B.C., the earliest founding years of the Roman city. It is made of precisely cut rectangular blocks, the largest of which are 1.48 long by 1.18 meters wide (approximately 5 by 4 feet)."
"The discovery rewrites the previous understanding of the orientation of the forum and how it aligned to the ancient city's main thoroughfares. The town was built with the typical urban design of a Roman city: two main streets the decumanus and the cardus intersecting in the center where the forum was located."
"The variance made allowances for the uneven terrain and ensured the pavement was stable and flat. The surviving section covers 42 square meters (452 square feet). The Romans arrived in 15 B.C., they conquered the Laietani and founded the colony of Julia Augusta Faventia Paterna Barcino."
An excavation under Barcelona's Gran Hotel Barcino uncovered a monumental pavement section from the Roman forum dating to 15-10 B.C., the earliest founding years of the Roman city Julia Augusta Faventia Paterna Barcino. The pavement consists of precisely cut Montjuic stone blocks, with the largest measuring 1.48 by 1.18 meters and up to 35 centimeters thick. The surviving section covers 42 square meters. The discovery rewrites previous understanding of the forum's orientation and its alignment to the ancient city's main thoroughfares—the decumanus running east-west and the cardus running north-south. The Romans founded the city in 15 B.C. after conquering the Iberian Laietani people, employing typical Roman urban design with the forum at the intersection of these two main streets.
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