ACINIPO ROMANS RUINS IN RONDA

The archaeological site of Acinipo is located over one big limestone hill of a tertiary origin, having a middle height of 999 mts. over the sea's surface. This rise at the depression of Ronda gave it an important strategic value, which was specially considered at the preroman age when the human settlement had to be stablished.

Acinipo is one of the settlements whose name appears for the first time in a classical text, as the ones written by Ptolomeo or Plinio. This site has been paid attention by lots of investigators. The first news about it appear soon, in the 16th century with Lorenzo de Padilla, being Fariña del Corral, in 1650, the first who identified the theater as belonging to the Roman age.



Although most of the visible rests belong to the Roman age, we do not have to forget the important prehistoric rests of this city. The oldest findings belong to the Neolithic period, and these found remains continue through the Ages of Copper and Bronze. It is at this prehistoric age and with the importance of the Phoenician colonies that Acinipo will rise and become its importance, which will arrive to its highpoint at the Roman age, being preceded by the Iberian phase.

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