In this coin he commemorates his ancestor L. Cornelius Scipio, the son of Scipio Africanus who defeated Antiochus of Syria at Mount Sipylus in 190 BCE. When he returned to Rome, he was given the title ...

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.

The bay of Cartagena is ideal to immerse oneself in a past dominated by names such as the Carthaginian Asdrubal, the consul Scipio Africanus, or the monarch Alfonso X the Wise. Getting in touch ...