page_title: Numantia
section_title: Development threat to the historic landscape
hierarchical_section_title: Numantia / Excavation and conservation of Numantia / Development threat to the historic landscape
caption_attribution_description: Español: Cruce de calles en las ruinas de Numancia, Soria, España. English: Street crossing in the ruins of Numantia, Soria, Spain.
context_page_description: Numantia was an ancient Celtiberian settlement, whose remains are located 7 km north of the city of Soria, on a hill known as Cerro de la Muela in the municipality of Garray.
  Numantia is famous for its role in the Celtiberian Wars.
  In the year 153 BC Numantia experienced its first serious conflict with Rome.
  After 20 years of hostilities, in the year 133 BC the Roman Senate gave Scipio Aemilianus Africanus
  the task of destroying Numantia. He laid siege to the city, erecting a nine kilometre fence supported by towers, moats, impaling rods and so on. After 13 months of siege, the Numantians decided to burn the city before surrendering.
context_section_description: The province of Soria is sparsely populated, and Numantia is mainly surrounded by land used for low intensity agriculture. However, the regional government of Castilla y Leon and the city of Soria have planned various construction projects which if completed would affect the landscape surrounding the site of Numantia.
  The proposed developments in the vicinity of Numantia have met widespread opposition from a number of quarters, including the Instituto de España, the Real Academia de la Historia, the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, the Spanish Section of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and a number of Ancient History Departments in Spain. In 2008 a petition organised to have Numantia declared a World Heritage Site, in the hope that this would deter the local authorities from developing the area.
caption: A street corner in the ruins of Numantia.
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "1324", "Image ImageLength": "669", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)", "Image DateTime": "2018:03:18 11:15:51", "Image ExifOffset": "232", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "382", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "9722", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1324", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "669"}