A recent article here on Heritage Key by Bija Knowles looked at Roman sites across the South East of France. There are many sites across the area which remain today as relics to the Roman past, the empire having controlled the area as early as 125BC.
The map shows the triangle area between the towns of Nimes, Arles and Orange where many of the heritage sites reside, but also includes Lyon which also has many notable Roman settlement relics.
Using this interactive map, you can see the exact locations of these sites, and easily plan your (real or fantasy) trip through Roman France.
Submitted by Bija Knowles on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 10:08
If you were planning on including a bit of Roman heritage in your Summer travel plans, then it's worth bearing in mind that you don't have to make the trip all the way to Rome to see something as impressive as the Colosseum. South eastern France was annexed by the Romans as early as 125 BC and the region is rich with a wide variety of monuments dating from the empire that brought it aqueducts, villas, wine and roads more than 2,000 years ago. Here is a look at some of the main Roman heritage sites to discover in the region, most of them within a triangle formed by the three towns of Orange, Nîmes and Arles, although the area of Lyon to the north is also rich in Roman culture.
Septimius Severus was born in the modern Lybian city of Leptis Magna, in what was then Rome's Africa Province, on April 11, 145. He had Roman heritage on his mother's side, yet Punic or Berber on his father's ancestry. He had many influential, if unspectacular, siblings and cousins, yet was made a senator by the then emperor Marcus Aurelius in 172. He was made a consul in 190, and just a year later the now-emperor Commodus made Severus commander of the legions in Pannonia (modern-day eastern Austria/Slovenia). It was only two years following that promotion when Severus' rise to power was complete - when the legions murdered Emperor Pertinax, who was only Emperor for 86 days - declaring Severus the new ruler.
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