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The city of Tarragona consciously and consistently incorporated its past into its present. In the early Middle Ages and before the Muslim conquest, Tarragona maintained its status as a Roman provincial capital by becoming a Christian metropolitan. Its local martyrs, Bishop Fructuosus and his deacons, were lauded by Prudentius as crowns of glory for the nation. In the 12th century, the city, once again Christian, reconstructed its history through its sacred sites and choice of patron saint. The new cathedral was dedicated to Thecla, a disciple of St Paul and female protomartyr. She was believed to have introduced Christianity to Tarragona as she accompanied Paul on his supposed journey to Spain. Important in the formation of Spanish identity, Tarragona is an authentic lieu de mémoire, with an inescapable sense of historical continuity embedded in its very stones. The article examines the ways in which two major monuments, the church set into the Roman amphitheatre and the hilltop cathedral, constructed collective memory in Tarragona.
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