A MÉRIDA LAPBOOK

 After our trip to Mérida, I made a lapbook of all the things I remembered learning and used the photos that I took while I was there. I made the lapbook from book packaging cardboard and my mum helped me with the stone drawings inside the lapbook.

MÉRIDA

 Mérida was called Emerita Augusta when it was founded in 25 BC because of the emperor Augustus and because it was created as a place for retired soldiers as "merit" for their service.

I loved seeing all the Roman stuff that I'd only ever seen in books. Next to the old monuments there were pictures to show you how it would have looked in Roman times.

These photos are of the Temple of Diana and the Roman bridge over the river Guadiana.

 This is the walls of the Alcazaba (Moorish Citadel) completed in 838AD and is the only Muslim building left in Mérida.

The other photo is of the Arch of Trajan. It was built in granite and covered in marble.

 This was the Forum which is like a main square. There are copies of the Corinthian columns and statues.

The below photo gives a better idea of what it looked like in Roman times.

 This is the circus where they had chariot races.

 This is the theatre and an underground passage.

 These are also Corinthian columns and capitals but the statues are copies. The originals are in the museum.

 A peristyle and the amphiteatre where gladiators fought against each other and against wild animals.

 Then we went to the National Museum of Roman Art which is a really cool museum with millions of things to see, like glass, weapons, coins, mosaics, statues, tools, jewellery, pottery, etc, etc.

 

On the way out of the city we stopped to look at one of the aqueducts that are standing.