{"id":5624,"date":"2010-05-05T17:38:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:38:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-05-31T12:11:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T10:11:18","slug":"the-ancient-roman-city-of-pollentia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/en\/culture\/the-ancient-roman-city-of-pollentia.html","title":{"rendered":"The ancient Roman city of Pollentia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5609 size-full\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px 20px; float: right;\" title=\"Roman city of Pollentia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Pollentia-1.jpg\" alt=\"Roman city of Pollentia\" width=\"150\" height=\"102\" \/>The ancient Roman city of Pollentia is located within the medieval walls of the old historical centre of <strong>Alc\u00fadia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5614 size-full\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 10px 20px 5px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Roman city of Pollentia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Pollentia-2.jpg\" alt=\"Roman city of Pollentia\" width=\"210\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Pollentia-2.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Pollentia-2-118x300.jpg 118w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Founded by the consul Quintus Caecilus Metellus, leader of the Roman expedition that conquered the Island in the year 123 BC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The site covers an area of two hectares that includes the residential area of <strong>La Portella<\/strong> and el <strong>Foro<\/strong>, a public square where important buildings such as the Capitoline Temple dedicated to Imperial Culture have been discovered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In the third Century AD work was started on the city walls of which some 100 metres remain intact. In the outskirts of the city can be found the <strong>Roman Theatre<\/strong>, with a capacity for two thousand people, built towards the end of the first Century AD.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5598 size-full\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px 20px 10px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Roman city of Pollentia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Pollentia-3.jpg\" alt=\"Roman city of Pollentia\" width=\"210\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5619\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Roman city of Pollentia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Pollentia-4.jpg\" alt=\"Roman city of Pollentia\" width=\"940\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Pollentia-4.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Pollentia-4-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ancient Roman city of Pollentia is located within the medieval walls of the old historical centre of Alc\u00fadia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The ancient Roman city of Pollentia | +Mallorca: The Magazine of Mallorca<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"+Mallorca, Culture: Roman city of Pollentia. 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