On the tiles

By 152 BCE a strategic provisioning point for Roman troops had been estab­lished in Córdoba. By the 1st C it had become Emperor Augustus' capital in Baetica, one of the three Roman provinces on the Iberian Peninsula. By the 3rd C, after Christianisation, it declined and fell to Islamic invaders in AD 711.
The old Roman town lies a couple of metres below the modern town and very little can be seen or remembered beyond the outstanding legacy of citizens such as Seneca and Lucan.
Some mosaics were dug up from the Plaza de la Corredera in the 1950s, but they must have shattered into many small pieces.Read more