Iluro
Iluro was a Roman town on the coast of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the site of the present-day city of Mataró in Catalonia, Spain. It was founded ex novo in the early decades of the 1st century BC in the territory of the Iberian Laietani, as part of the Roman reorganisation of the Catalan coast, and is recorded by Pliny the Elder as an oppidum civium Romanorum.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mataró town hall and Basilica of St. Mary, Mataró.
Basilica of St. Mary, Mataró
Church
Basilica of St. Mary, Mataró is a church, which is situated 190 metres northwest of Iluro.
Can Serra (Mataró)
Museum
Can Serra (Mataró) is a museum, which is situated 220 metres west of Iluro.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Centre and Palau-Escorxador.
Rocafonda
Neighborhood
Rocafonda is a neighbourhood of the city of Mataró in Catalonia, Spain. Rocafonda was built in the 1960s to accommodate immigration from southern Spanish regions such as Andalusia and Extremadura.
Iluro
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city in Hispania
- Categories: Roman city, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Mataró, Barcelona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
41.53951° or 41° 32′ 22″ north
Longitude
2.44789° or 2° 26′ 52″ east
Open location code
8FH4GCQX+R5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Iluro” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ilduro”
- Basque: “Ilturo”
- Basque: “Iluro”
- Catalan: “Ciutat romana d’Iluro”
- Catalan: “Ilduro”
- Catalan: “Ilturo”
- Catalan: “Iluro”
- Finnish: “Iluro (Hispania Tarraconensis)”
- Finnish: “Iluro”
- French: “Iluro”
- German: “Iluro”
- Spanish: “Ciudad romana de iluro”
- Spanish: “Ciudad romana de Iluro”
- Spanish: “Iluro”
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