The good weather in Tarragona invites visitors to fill tables in Plaça de la Font to enjoy a traditional glass of vermouth.

Provincial Forum

The provincial Forum was the synapse where administrative powers merged in the Tarragona Province. Today, a modern city coexists with its imperial past and is a place for travellers to enjoy terraces full of life in a unique environment and surrounded by dense history.

The Provincial Forum was spread over two squares at different heights. The lower square was an enormous rectangular area, built in the 1st century AD. It contained the public administrative nerve center of the province of Roman Tarragona. – © Joan Capdevila Vallve

Visitors can see these Roman remains in Plaça del Pallol: the entranceway, vault, and pilasters of the Old Nunnery. – © Manel Antoli RV Edipress / Tarragona Tourist Board

The Praetorium (southeast tower with entranceways) in Plaça del Rei is the southern expansion of the provincial Fòrum. Next to it sits the
Tarragona National Archaeological Museum. – © Manel Antoli RV Edipress / Tarragona Tourist Board

The Provincial Forum was spread over two squares at different heights. The lower square was an enormous rectangular area, built in the 1st century AD. It contained the public administrative nerve center of the province of Roman Tarragona. – © Joan Capdevila Vallve

With the pacification of the region in the 1st century, the Roman army withdrew from the city’s High District, an area spread over three terraced steps. The intermediate step contained the provincial Forum, the political and administrative nerve centre of Tarragona.

Today, this once vast plaza, with surrounding arcade, is home to dozens of houses and streets. Visitors will see the remains of the portico in the buildings of the "Antiga Audiència," or the Old Court of Justice, (southwest tower), the Plaça del Pallol (entranceway, vault, and pilasters of the Old Nunnery), the Plaça del Fòrum (angular wall), and in the Praetorium (southeast tower with entranceways, vaults, and pilasters).

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