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This article explores the best-preserved Roman ruins in modern Paris, offering a glimpse into the city’s ancient past. From grand public baths to a hidden amphitheatre, these sites reveal the extensive Roman influence that shaped the early city.
Slowly, the Roman city was built over and most of its vestiges were lost or buried. But, let's return again to the glory days of Roman Paris and take a look at some of the remains you can still see today.
Look a little further and you will discover vestiges of this Gallo-Roman city where about 10,000 inhabitants lived. Paris was by no means a major Roman city such as Lyon or Nanterre, but the traces of this period that are found connect curious travelers and history buffs to an ancient part of Paris’s history.
10 sie 2023 · Hoping to see significant Roman ruins in Paris on your next trip? Probably not. Unlike Pompeii, Lyon (the former capital of Roman Gaul, once called Lugdunum), and Rome itself, Paris isn’t especially noted for its ancient sites of pre-Christian heritage.
2 paź 2019 · From Roman-era ruins to post-World War II memorials, these famous sites and monuments in the City of Light are essential keys to understanding the city's elaborate and complicated past. 01 of 15 Notre-Dame Cathedral
The Arc de Triomphe is famous for the unknown soldier buried at its base, along with the eternal flame. It has become a place of pilgrimage. But it is also infamous as a roundabout, with the cars and pedestrians going around it uninsured if they get into an accident.
15 mar 2024 · From its early beginnings as a Roman colony on the Île de la Cité, to its medieval fortresses, magnificent Gothic cathedrals, classic Renaissance châteaux, homogeneous Haussmann buildings, and myriad progressive contemporary designs, each historical era reflects past cultures reminding us of who we were, who we are, and who we might be again ...
