This true-colour image of Merida was taken by Sentinel-2A on 11 August. Home to some 60 000 people, Merida is the capital of the autonomous community of Extremadura, in western Spain. Owing to the ...

The Romans, the Goths, the Muslims and, of course, the Christians. They’re all still here more than 2,000 years after the first of them arrived to found the city of Emerita Augusta. Today, only 60,000 ...

In 25 B.C.E., Romans founded a colony called Augusta Emerita in what is now Mérida, Spain. Consortium of the Monumental City of Mérida Archaeologists working at the site of an ancient Roman bath ...

As we walked from my hotel, towards the centre of town, my guide suddenly pointed to a building, that stopped me in my tracks. Unlike temples perched on hills or isolated behind fences, this ancient ...