Private Valencia tours and day trips 

Discovered in 138 BC, by the consulate of Decimus Junius Brutus, Valencia was originally a settlement for soldiers who were given land by the new city. Excavations by Archaeologist have found evidence of the first settlement of the foundations for log cabins and tents which probably was a temporary camp, but within a few years, became more of a permanent construction. Valencia soon prospered and even began to produce its own coins. The city was destroyed in 75 BC during the war between Pompey and Sertorius. Discoveries at La Almoina found the dismembered bodies of soldiers and their weapons.

Because of the conflict, it seems the settlement was abandoned for nearly 500 years.

From the middle of the first century, Valencia recovered and embarked on a period of development with the wealth of its settlers and the construction of large public buildings, the amphitheatre and the forum.

Large building projects were completed, such as a river port and the water supply system, a facility that Valencia was not able to use again until the middle of the nineteenth century. Valencia was not averse to the crisis that affected all of the Roman Empire in the second half of the third century, thus Valencia suffered a lengthy period of decline. In the middle of the fourth century, the city became a Christian community.