Roses

Roses is a municipality inside the comarca of the Alt Emporda, located on the Costa Brava, in Catalonia, Spain. It is the web site of the former bishopric of Rotdon, now a Latin Catholic titular see. It is located at the coast at the northern give up of the Gulf of Roses, and is an essential fishing port and tourist centre. The C-260 avenue links the town with Figueres. The origins of Roses Greek: Rhode are disputed. A famous principle holds it turned into based within the eighth century BC by using Greek colonists from Rhodes.

It seems more likely that it was founded within the fifth century BC through Greeks from Massalia Marseilles, perhaps with an admixture of colonists from neighbouring Emporion modern Empuries. Remains of the Greek settlement can nevertheless be seen. Remains from the Roman duration go back to the 2nd century BC and keep properly into Christian instances with a paleochristian church and necropolis. After the disintegrate of Roman electricity the city appears to were deserted, but a fortified agreement from the Visigothic duration has been excavated at the nearby Puig Rom.