was first inhabited by the Ausetanos, an ancient Iberian tribe, it was called Ausa. It was Romanized in the 2nd century and took the name Vicus Ausonensis (Ausona) in the 5th century. In 826 it was destroyed by Arab invaders who rebuilt it as Vic in 885. A powerful self-governing city in the Middle Ages, it aided James I of Aragon in his conquest of Valencia (1235–38). The French, under Gen. Joseph Souham, defeated the Spanish at Vic in 1810.. In the 18th century, when the Castle of els Montcada that stood there before was demolished. It was then that workers noticed the remains of this 2nd-century temple