The bassin of the Guadalquivir river has played an important role in the occidental civilisation. References in the ancient Greek authors to the kingdom of Tartessos, perhaps the heir of the mythic Platon's Atlantida, is a proof of the existence of an advanced human society in the Guadaquivir's estuary several centuries before the coming of the Phoenician ships to the Iberian peninsula. Once the Roman empire got these temperate occidental lands, great cities like Emerita Augusta and Hispalis (the present cities of Mérida ... (more)