The Roman city, located in the current " White House " meadow
between the terms of Oliva of Plasencia and Guijo of Granadilla to the north
of the county of Cáceres. Their localization has never been a problem it was
very documented in the antiquity, it was mentioned by one of the first well-known
old geographers that mentions us this it pierces archaeological, he/she speaks
of ...los caparenses... as city estipendiaria of the county Lusitania. These
data should be picked up by this author of mainly military stories as it
formulates it provinciarum of Agripa, dated in the year 41 a.n.e. Ptholomeo Also
mentions calling it Kapasa and that it was in Lusitania, the curious thing is
that the appointment twice a, between the towns lusitanos and another among the
towns vettones, that makes think that this city of Cáparra was among the
geographical limits of these towns.
It is located in the denominated wearing shoes today of The Silver", between
Merida and Salamanca, in the Itinerary of Antonino being the cities but
important in this road, the following ones: Emerita, Add Sorores, Castris
Caecili, Turmulos, Rusticiana, Cáparra was to 110 miles of Emerita, Caecilio
Vico, Sentice among other, arriving this roadway until Asturicam. Their monument
but outstanding and conserved from then on, it is the arch cuadrifronte, built
in the decumanus between the forum and the thermal baths flavias. The arch had
two inscriptions in two of its pedestals, in one of them and the only one
conserved he/she says: Bolosea(e)Fi(dio)/Pelli·f(iliae)Ma(cri) filio/M(arcus)·Fidius
Mace(r) Testament [f(aciendum)·c(uravit)], in the other one (lost today) he/she
said: Iuliae·Luperci·f(ilia)/Lupercae·M(arcus)·Fidius/Macer·uxor·p(oni)·i(usi).
Macer in that time was one of the main municipal leaders it financed this work
for the political obligation that you/they had these of erecting works in the
city, the arch it was dedicated to its parents and its wife, remains have not
arrived us of if in the peak of the monument he/she had had some other
dedication, like it had been the normal thing.
It is located in the denominated wearing shoes today of The Silver", between
Merida and Salamanca, in the Itinerary of Antonino being the cities but
important in this road, the following ones: Emerita, Add Sorores, Castris
Caecili, Turmulos, Rusticiana, Cáparra was to 110 miles of Emerita, Caecilio
Vico, Sentice among other, arriving this roadway until Asturicam. Their monument
but outstanding and conserved from then on, it is the arch cuadrifronte, built
in the decumanus between the forum and the thermal baths flavias. The arch had
two inscriptions in two of its pedestals, in one of them and the only one
conserved he/she says: Bolosea(e)Fi(dio)/Pelli·f(iliae)Ma(cri) filio/M(arcus)·Fidius
Mace(r) Testament [f(aciendum)·c(uravit)], in the other one (lost today) he/she
said: Iuliae·Luperci·f(ilia)/Lupercae·M(arcus)·Fidius/Macer·uxor·p(oni)·i(usi).
Macer in that time was one of the main municipal leaders it financed this work
for the political obligation that you/they had these of erecting works in the
city, the arch it was dedicated to its parents and its wife, remains have not
arrived us of if in the peak of the monument he/she had had some other
dedication, like it had been the normal thing.