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With tyrants destroyed on all sides and the invaders of Spain overcome, King
Leovigild had peace to reside with his own people. He founded a city in Celtiberia, which he named Recopolis after his son. He endowed it with splendid buildings, both within the walls and in the suburbs, and he established
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and though they reused building materials to construct a fortification on a hill facing the city, the city declined and was burned, looted, razed, and incrementally abandoned in the tenth century. It lay forgotten until the twentieth century.
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starting in the 1940s under Juan Cabré, with ongoing efforts revealing the monumental area within the walled enclosure. Notable remains include an
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located 2 km to the east, recognized as the first new, urban aqueduct in the
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mounted an exhibition called "RecĂłpolis: un paseo por la ciudad
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