A HISTORICAL festival with activities and attractions for visitors of all ages is officially underway. Flintshire's Park in the Past is currently hosting its major annual heritage festival ‘Auxilia: Rome's Cutting Edge'. The nine-day event, which began on Saturday, brings a dramatic taste of life two millennia ago with re-enactors coming from all over the UK, Ireland and as far as Italy to put on an international ‘living history’ display for visitors.
Paul Harston, Roman fort project champion and director of Park in the Past, said: "This is only our second annual international Roman festival at the Park and it's even better this year. "The festival celebrates the rich diversity of peoples, cultures and faiths present in Roman Britain nearly two thousand years ago. "Visitors are transported back in time to the Roman Conquest during the clash of cultures between the mighty Roman Empire and the equally formidable Celtic tribes who resisted the Roman war machine.
"All things Roman is incredibly popular today of course and we're delighted to share this heritage with visitors at our festival held in our full-size reconstructed Roman fort. "It's the only complete authentic Roman fort to be built in Britain since Roman times and offers a remarkable experience of what it felt like living on the frontier. "We have re-enactors from all over the UK and Europe coming to represent Rome's specialist auxiliary troops, their families and the multicultural traditions they brought with th.
