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Sancti Petri Island. Castle.
In the first century. C. his Geography Strabo relates that the Tyrians founded Gadeira, raising a shrine to Melkarth, primitive figuration of Hercules, in the eastern part of the island and city in the western part. It was said that the temple had been founded in the time of the Trojan War in the early twelfth century. C.

The sanctuary would probably be a set of buildings where there would be a main building and a courtyard which is accessed by a flanked by two large columns door. According to Silius Italicus narrates in the first century BC In the frontispiece appeared the twelve labors of Hercules carved in bronze. There was no image of the god inside the enclosure. It also refers to the fact that human sacrifices were prohibited because in her altar burned a perpetual fire, cared for by the unceasing vigilance of his priests. According to Strabo, in the columns of the entrance sailors made their sacrifices. Abounded in the sanctuary bronze alta...

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