The Roman site of Can Tacó is located on the Turó d'en Roina, facing south and 50 metres above the confluence of the Congost and Mogent rivers, at the source of the Besós river and about 20 km away from its mouth in the Mediterranean Sea. Forming part of the Tres Creus Hills complex, this natural and genuine enclave structures biodiversity in a very fragmented and man-made environment. The idea is to recover and enhance both the natural and archaeological heritage. Passing through a small forest, submerged among the mass of oaks, we discover the Roman site at the end of a quiet and winding route; the remains of a Roman palace with a clear geometry of the spaces that formed it, with areas of great interest that must be highlighted. Built by successive earthworks and partly with local slate stone, what had been an important settlement prior to the construction of the Via Augusta is currently a natural viewpoint towards the Vallès regions. It intervenes in the transfer of the Roman traces, reinforcing the content (the space) and highlighting the continent (the walls). We work with the earth that over time covered the remains and that accumulated outside the site as a result of the archaeological excavation. These lands and gravels from the old licorice quarry are sieved and straightened again but in a different position, giving them a new meaning. A first steel mesh contains the new stones, and these contain the land and gravel that together will reproduce the successive horizontal planes at the level where the Romans traveled. A second mesh, denser and thinner, is arranged as a curtain in time, as a backdrop on which the different archaeological remains are projected. In this way, stone and steel, mountain and industry coexist in these landscapes of accumulation and, nevertheless, dynamic due to the contact between fragments, interpreting the pre-existing, valuing and activating, incorporating and not erasing, and at the same time co-evolving with the natural environment by optimising resources to the maximum.
