Sagunto

The locals call the ruins at the top of the hill in Sagunto an old Roman city.  During the 5th century BC, the Celtiberians built a walled settlement on the hill overseeing the plain towards the sea.  Later it was known as Roman Saguntum, and was rebuilt and flourished.  Many years later it was under the control of the Muslim Arabs who added baths, palaces, and mosques.  Later it was taken over by the Spanish and was ultimately damaged greatly by wars with the French.

This was taken from one end looking towards the sea.  Cacti covered much of the land and hillside here.  The kids were excited to see "real live cactuses"

This place was amazing, we loved that we could wander and roam wherever we wanted.  There were very few other people here and unlike many other ancient cities in Spain it has remained how it was left with little new construction hiding the history.  This fortress was huge and since we don't know what anything was or used for there won't be much in my captions just a lot of pictures of some amazing sites/sights.  

This photo was taken from the opposite side of the previous photo from the seaside.

Just a nice shot of the sea.  Oh and of my family too.

This is still on the sea side and is facing out of a walled in section which only had this gate to enter.   as if they had a fort inside a fort.

This is right outside the previous gate looking again away from the sea.  This is the center plaza with a couple buildings that are obviously partially reconstructed.

These are remnants of old Roman columns.  They did have a very small museum with more pieces of these that had Roman/Greek inscriptions on them. 

We assume  there are underground tunnels here because there are several caves like these, which are connected, below the walls and there are areas that are blocked off inside the ruins that look like they go deep into the ground.