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Beyond's Roman Sites
Alaunium [p14, SW]
Aurelian Way
Aurélien Villa
Domitienne Way
Entremont Oppidum [q13, S] - This excevated Roman town is located on a low hill just 2 km north of Aix-en-Provence center.
Flayosc Roman Bridge (Flayosc)
Ganagobie Roman Bridge (Ganagobie)
Glanum [q12, NE] - A pair of monuments and an excavated Roman town on a site dating from the 4th century BC; beside Saint Rémy-de-Provence.
Mons Roman Aqueduct [q14, NE]
Pierre-Ecrite [p14, NW] - Large Roman inscription (the written stone) between Sisteron and Saint Geniez.
Les Plaines Roman Bridge (Pont Romain des Plaines) [r14, NE]
Pont du Gard [p12, SW]
Pont Julien (Pont Julien) [q13, NW]
Roman Provence
Roman Roads - The main Roman roads, Domitienne Way and Aurelian Way are mentioned in Beyond's History section.
Sommières Roman Bridge (Sommieres)
Trophée des Alpes [q15, E] - Roman monument site on the road into Gaul.
Villa Marius [r14, NW] - Roman farm and winery near Roquebrussanne in the Var.
In addition to the Roman Sites pages (listed above), the individual Beyond Village pages include a brief Roman history and list important artifacts and ruins (if known). The following towns, villages and sites of Beyond have something Roman, such as ruins or artifacts.
- Aix-en-Provence - Protohistoric town and Roman city. Museum; major excavations, two aqueducts.
- Antibes - Museums; A Greek, then Roman port; several Roman walls, crypt, temple ruins.
- Apt - Museum; remains of a theater; Pont Julien (Roman bridge), between Apt and Bonnieux.
- Arles - Museums; urban remains, including theater [photo], baths, circus, forum.
- Aups
- Bagnols-en-Forêt - millstones
- Barbegal (map east of Arles, 4 km south of Fontvieille) - Aqueducts and a seven-building mill complex.
- Bargème
- Bauduen
- Bonnieux - Pont Julien (Roman bridge) between Bonnieux and Apt); Voie Domitienne
- Cabris - artifacts
- Callas - mausoleum, ruins
- Carpentras - Museum; triumphal arch [photo].
- Caussols, Plateau - Roman road.
- Cavaillon - Museum; triumphal arch.
- Céreste - pottery oven; Voie Domitienne
- Chateauneuf-Villevieille (Chateauneuf-de-Contes)
- Claviers
- la Couronne (map, south of Istres) - Ruins of a quarry on the coast; bas-relief at St. Julien-les-Martigues 7 km northeast.
- Digne-les-Bains (map) - Museum, with sculpture of Silenus.
- Draguignan (map) - Museum, with items from St. Hermentaire, Flayosc and Fox-Amphoux.
- Entrevaux - "Glanate"
- Escarène
- Figaniéres
- Fontaine-de-Vaucluse - canals, columns
- Fox-Amphoux (map) - Augustan sanctuary remains.
- Fréjus - Museums; major urban remains, including aqueduct, amphitheater, baths.
- Gap (map) - The Roman city of Vapincum and the capital of the Aventici tribe; museum.
- Gigondas - artifacts
- Gordes - amphors, columns, ... skeletons
- Gourdon
- Grasse
- Gréoux-les-Bains (map) - A modern "hot springs" on the siet of the Roman hot spring healing baths; remains of a Roman swimming pool and other buildings.
- Hyères - Museum; ruins of a Greek and Roman town.
- Istres (map) - Museums; oppidum.
- Le Lauzet-Ubaye: a single-arch Roman bridge over a deep gorge [photo].
- Lerins Islands: Ile Ste. Marguerite, Ile St. Honorat - Traces of a Roman port and baths, vaulted cisterns.
- Malaucène - aqueduct
- Malpasset Dam - photo of a nearby aqueduct
- Mane - aqueducts; Voie Domitienne
- Marseilles (map) - A Greek and Roman port. Museums; theater; park with various ruins.
- Moulin des Bouillon (map, west of Apt, south of Gordes) - A restored lever olive press of Gallo-Roman origin, inside a 16th-century farmhouse.
- Mazan - an alley of 64 Gallo-Roman sarcophagi located here (no photo).
- Motte-d'Aigues
- Nice - Cimiez (map) - Museum; amphitheater, paleochristian baptistry and baths, including a frigidarium.
- Oppède
- Orange - Theater!, triumphal arch!, museum; major urban remains, including capitolium [photos]
- Orpierre - Coin hoard
- Pont Julien - Roman bridge in excellent condition.
- Riez (map) - Columns; museum; temple, cathedral site, baptistery.
- Roquebrune-Cap-Martin - A large 1st-century mausoleum, elaborately decorated.
- Roquepertuse (map, 16 km west of Aix on the D10, beside the railway) - A sanctuary site.
- Roussillon - Roman ocre mining
- Roya Valley - Roman rock engravings.
- St Blaise (map, 4 km south of Istre) - Gallo-Greek town and ramparts.
- St. Cézaire-sur-Siagne - covered wells; sarcophage [photo]
- St-Chamas - Pont Flavien (Roman bridge and arches) [photos].
- St. Paul-en-Forêt
- St. Rémy - Museum; major ruins of "Glanum", including basilica, forum, mausoleum, triumphal arch; Gallo-Roman quarries
- Saorge - inscriptions
- Seillans - veterans colony; baths.
- Sisteron (Pierre-Ecrite) - A 17-line rock-cut inscription in the Pierre Ecrite gorge, 10 km northeast of Sisteron.
- le Tignet - "Oppidum Castellaras"
- Toüet-sur-Var
- Tourtour - Voie Aurélienne
- La Turbie - Museum; "The Trophy" Roman victory monument, quarries.
- Valbonne - aqueduct
- Vacqueyras
- Vaison-la-Romaine - Museum; major remains of a Roman town and a 17-m wide Roman bridge.
- Venasque
- Vence - mausoleum, inscriptions
- Vernegues, 5 km nw of Lambesc - Rural temple.
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