Early Christian basilica of Casa Herrera

Its most singular feature is the baptismal font for immersion, of which only about ten are known in the Iberian Peninsula. The excavation produced numerous decorative fragments, funerary inscriptions and sarcophagi, as befits a building that also served as privileged burial ground. In a later period the place was used for Muslim worship.

The monument was discovered in 1943 by J. de C. Serra Ràfols. In 1968, commissioned by the German Archaeological Institute and directed by Thilo Ulbert, the ruins were cleared and the baptistery and part of the nave examined; the 1971 and 1972 seasons were directed jointly by Ulbert and Luis Caballero, and their report was published in 1976 in the Excavaciones Arqueológicas en España series. In 2007 T. Cordero and I. Sastre excavated again to establish the continuity of human settlement, which runs from the late Empire to the 8th century.

On the surface there are also building and pottery remains of a rural settlement, and stretches of water channel nearby: the place lies at the catchment head of the Las Tomas–Rabo de Buey aqueduct, which took water from the springs of Las Tomas, Valhondo and Casa Herrera. The plan of the basilica is consolidated and legible at ground level. Location approximate.