The Roman Wall

The Roman Wall, was built between the years 260 and 310 of our era. It is the only in Europe that conserves its whole perimeter of more than 2000 metres. Its height varies from 8 to 12 metres; formerly with 85 round turrets, and nowadays more than 70 are conserved. Its layout encloses the old part of the city, to which you get through its ten doors, only four of which have Roman origin. The remaining ones were opened with the need of the urban development of the city. In 1999, a group of enterprising people took the initiative in order to promote the Roman wall of Lugo outside this city. The project "Cumulum" finished on September 2000. For five months, more than 6000 people took part in this original project surrounding the wall with more than 500.000 books given by the people, which were then given to several organizations in Latin America. Finally, on November 30th 2000, the Roman wall of Lugo was declared 'Humanity Heritage' by the UNESCO.