Lugo Roman walls
— a ring of stone the city still wears every day.
Not only on a wall.
Lugo Roman walls, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A complete Roman wall, the only one still standing, around the old city of Lugo in inland Galicia. The circuit runs about 2.1 kilometres and stands roughly ten to fifteen metres high. Seventy-one towers still hold their places of the original eighty-five. It was built in the late third century to guard the Roman town of Lucus Augusti and has carried every century since without falling. The walkway on top is open and free. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
The Roman Walls of Lugo enclose the old city of Lugo, capital of the province of the same name in inland Galicia, at about 454 metres elevation. The circuit runs roughly 2.1 kilometres around a slight rise above the Miño river. The walls were built between the late third and early fourth centuries to defend the Roman town of Lucus Augusti, founded under Augustus around 14 BC. They were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000 as the only complete Roman defensive wall still standing.
The wall stands roughly ten to fifteen metres high and four to seven metres thick, built of slate and granite blocks on a rubble core. Seventy-one of the original eighty-five semicircular towers survive, including the Mosqueira tower at the southwest, which keeps the original Roman three-window upper room. Ten gates pierce the wall today, five of them Roman in origin and the others opened in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to allow modern traffic into the old city. The upper walkway is continuous and open to the public.
Access to the walkway on top of the wall is free and open during daylight hours, with several staircases distributed around the circuit. Walking the full ring takes about forty-five minutes at an easy pace. The cathedral of Santa María sits inside the walls on the south side. Lugo is reached by car or train from Santiago de Compostela in about ninety minutes, or from A Coruña in about an hour. The old city inside the walls is small enough to cover on foot in an afternoon.
