Ciutat romana de Pollèntia

Mallorca

Roman city on Alcúdia's edge, founded in 123 BC by consul Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus.

Founded by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus in 123 BC, the site includes early remains from the first half of the 1st century BC, suggesting a possible military camp origin before the city's establishment.

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A camp before the city

The earliest remains here date to the first half of the 1st century BC, before the city's founding in 123 BC. Researchers think a military camp stood on the site first, ahead of the campaign that conquered Mallorca.

Still a stage

The Roman theatre, the only one preserved on Mallorca, has its seating cut straight into the hillside rock. Alcúdia's town council still stages plays there every August, the Mostra de Teatre, now in its 38th year.

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Pollentia (Catalan: Pol·lèntia) was a Roman city founded by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus in the present city of Alcúdia, allegedly in the year 123 BC. The first documented remains belong, however, to the first half of the 1st century BC. This had led the researchers to establish the possibility of the creation of a castra (military camp) by the military expedition that, a generation later, would result in the current city of Pollentia.