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The common people ate a light breakfast (IENTACULUM)with the left-overs of the night before, then a quick lunch (PRANDIUM) with olives, bread and cheese or a legumes soup in termopolia. The dinner (COENA) was the most important meal and the Romans ate dinner very early , at 4 or 5 p.m. with a main dish, a puls of cereals, soup, cheese, vegetables and sometimes meat.

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Two of the ports of the Basque Country were Roman settlements to make salted fish. Both have the same name: Getaria in the Spanish side and Gethary in the French one.

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Romans used honey for medicine. They also used it as a  sweeter because they didn't have sugar at that time.

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In all the Roman towns there were crossroads. They were made of big stones.

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Ara-Coeli is a  latin name for 'Altar in  the sky'. lt seems to refer to 'San Migel in excelsis', a church at the top of the hill.
It's alike the current name of our river Arakil.

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Romans used to send messages with a person in a wooden structure filled with wax.
Nowadays we use SMS and Whatsapp.

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It's one of the most famous legacies that Romans gave to us.
It's wide and its pillars are thick to resist the Ebro river strong currents and floods.

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Bars: The ´´ Thermopolis´´ were places very similar to our current bars. And nowadays we like going to bars.

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This is a Roman mosaic in Azkoyen in Navarre its a wall of a roman house

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Dinners were very important for Romans.
They used to eat three different dishes:
First, eggs, shellfish or snails .

Then, meat.

Fruit or sweets for dessert.
They had dinner laying over a couch.

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Two years ago they found a metallic hand with the inscription  "Sorioneku". It is the oldest writing in Basque ever found. It appeard near Pamplona.
There was a civil war among the Romans, and villagers were allies to one side. The other side burnt the village and they had to run away. They left everything on its own.

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Oiasso was an active natural  port in Roman times. It's the area near the border to  France.

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Amazing traces of engineering work can be found on the consular road to Gaul: supporting walls, bridges and excavations in the rock. Our villages changed name.

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Amanita caesarea is commonly found in  Europe. Its name comes from the Romans. It was known in ancient times and was particularly valued on the tables of Roman Emperors. This delicious mushroom was the favourite dish of Emperor Nero.

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It was built in 25 a.C. for celebrating the victory of Romans on the first citizens of Aosta Valley: the Salasses. The arch was dedicated to emperor Augustus. The ancient name of Aosta was Augusta Praetoria.

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The boundary wall of Augusta Praetoria formed a rectangle measuring 727m by 574 and was built  of river stones and covered by marble travertine

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This was the main entrance Augusta P. It has two parallel arches 12 metres apart, each with three passages: one for vehicles and two side ones for pedestrians

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In Donnas, the stretch of paved road lies below an arch which is cut into the rock and features a carefully worked archway.

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This monument, which dates back to the Augustan era,  its main purpose was to create a structure for containing and levelling, creating a difference of level between the holy area and the adjacent forum. Perhaps was later put forward that the semi-buried part could have been used as a warehouse and military storage area (horreum).

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The impressive 22-metre high southern façade can be seen from the theatre which would have held three or four thousand spectators

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LATIN EXPRESSIONS AND WORDS STILL USED IN ITALIAN MODERN LANGUAGE

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Romans called us 'Vascones' and nowadays we are Basque

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Romans had another Mansio in Santacara, in the route between Zaragoza (Cesaraugusta)   and Pamplona (pompaelo). There are some milliariums from that time.

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The current name of Pamplona comes from Pompaelos. It was the Roman name of the town. It comes from the Roman General Pompeio

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5km. away from Lakuntza there was  a 'MANSIO' or a restop in Roman times. There was one of these, every 30 km. or so.

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These are the Basque words that come from Latin:
Latin:           Basque:        English:

-Ausus        -Ausarta       -Brave
-Fructus      -Fruituak      -Fruits
-Portus        -Portua       -Harbour
-Locus         -Leku           -Place
-aris suffix  -ari atzizkia  -er suffix

And more.

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This is a Roman market in Forua, near Gernika. The name of this village comes from the activity they did in Roman times.

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In Mendigorría, Navarre, next to the chapel of Our Lady of Andión there is a Roman town called Andelos with a water supply system. It takes the water to the centre and it is distributed around the city, and consists of a dam, storage tanks, an aqueduct and the Castellum Aquae.

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CAIUS AVILLIUS CAIMUS PATAVINUS PRIVATUM this plate explains that the builder  of the bridge-aqueduct was a private citizen.measuring 56 metres in height and more than 50 metres in length.
The monument had a double function of bridge and acqueduct and was consequently built on two different levels: a drain for canalizing water in the upper part and a covered passageway  in the lower section, allowing the transit of men and animals.The acqueduct-bridge played therefore a fundamental role in the extraction and processing of the marble of the local quarries.

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The rich people (patricians) ate more meat , fish and exotic plates (flamingos,cranes) , the poor people (plebeians) ate legumes, bread and vegetables.In roman banquets didn't  miss the "garum" a special sauce with fishes, garum was also used on dessert.That's disgusting!

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Roman bridge of  Pont-St- Martin (20km.far)

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Roman bridge of  Pont-St- Martin (20km.far)

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Built on I century along the roman road of Gaul

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The via Asturia Burdigala joined
two important points for Romans,
a silver mine in Astorga with a harbour in
Bourdeaux and passed through our valley, Sakana.

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There are several modern languages coming from Latin: French,Spanish,Italian,Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Romanian...

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Here there are the main ways in Roman times

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Here there are the main ways in Roman times

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Romans liked olive oil, wheat flour and wine. They loved the bread of this shape, with divisions easy to cut.