ABSTRACT
The Hispano-Roman Municipium Flavium Muniguense is a good case study for the investigation of the economic aspects of space and mobility in Roman cities. As the largest known producer of copper and iron in the Sierra Morena during the first and second centuries ce, Munigua developed an exceptional economic power that enabled the monumental development of the city, even if it remained one of the smallest provincial cities in Roman Spain, with an area of just 3.8 ha intra muros. This chapter is an attempt to determine Munigua’s place in the production chain of the goods that the city itself produced or that came into and out of the city. In doing so, I shall make use of a theoretic framework developed for the study of production chains in modern industrial and commercial enterprises.
