Caurium

CAURIUM (Coria) Cáceres, Spain.

Town on the Alagón river W of Plasencia, mentioned by Pliny (4.118) and Ptolemy (2.5.6). Considerable stretches of its Roman walls survive: the towers are square and the perimeter ca. 1 km. The ashlar is granite in large blocks. There are four gates, those on the S and E the most important. Little of the aqueduct survives, but sculptural and epigraphic remains have been found.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

J. R. Mélida, Catálogo Monumental de España. Provincia de Cáceres (1924) I, 104-14; A. Diaz Martos, Las murallas de Coria (1956) MPI.

L. G. IGLESIAS