La Almoina Archaeological Museum
Sunken Roman forum, baths, and warehouse ruins, excavated over two decades beneath a medieval almshouse.
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This guide to the La Almoina Archaeological Museum in Valencia opens in 1985, when workers extending the cathedral's basilica struck stone that shouldn't have been there and uncovered a Roman site beneath. Twenty years of digs followed, peeling back a bathhouse, a grain warehouse, a pottery kiln and Roman shops, then Visigothic and Muslim-era layers above them. You'll hear how a later charity gave the site the name it still carries. Look at the column bases underfoot; they once held up a Roman forum.
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