Tarraco Viva Festival (5-19 of May)

Tarraco (nowadays Tarragona) was one of the most important city of the Roman Empire during the reign of Octavian Agustus. Every year here is organized the Tarraco Viva Festival. Thanks to the event we can back in time and feel like the citizens of the Roman Empire.

During the Roman Empire Tarraco was the capital of the Roman province Hispania Tarraaconensis. It was the first Roman city of Spain and the most developed one of all the Iberian Peninsula. Here you can see how Tarraco looked like 2.000 years ago and how it looks like now.

The Tarraco Viva Festival offers a lot of activities like for exaple: a gastronomic festival of ancient recipes of the roman cuisine, music and dance shows and many reenactments of life in Roman Empire. At this link you can see some fragments of the historic performances of the gladiator fights. This show every year takes place in the ruins of the orginal ancient Roman amphitheater which was built in the 1st century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD7WR_K94bI#action=share

The Tarraco Viva Festival is a great opportunity to learn a lot about the ancient Roman traditions and culture. Last year I participated in the festival and I really enjoyed it. If you are there these days, you have to see it. You can't miss it! ;)

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