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The National Roman Art Museum (MNAR) shows the visitor different sides of daily life in the province of Hispania.

Its collection has made this museum one of the most important of its kind.

The collection of Visigoth pieces in this museum brings together relics from Mérida from the 4th-8th centuries, as the capital of the Diocesis Hispaniarum and as the metropolitan capital of the province of Lusitania

Mérida is traditionally a bullfighting town, but the current bullring was not built until the 20th century.

This 6th-century Visigothic architectural site was used as a hostel and hospital by pilgrims and the poor.

The successor of the former cathedral, the church cathedral of Santa María la Mayor is in the town of Mérida, in the middle of the Plaza de España.

On your tour of Mérida you can include a visit to this 15th-century building which now houses the presidency of the government of Extremadura.

Ever since its remains were found in 1920, the ruin known as El Pozo de la Nieve (the ice well) in Mérida has been the object of research in order to find out what the real reason for its construction was.

Archaeological remains can be admired from the street at all times.

This is a wonderful example of a Roman dwelling complete with mosaics and frescoes. It is open for visit and very close to the Mérida Amphitheatre and the National Museum of Roman Art (MNAR).