Argentomagus
A seventy-hectare Gallo-Roman town
Archaeological museum built above the remains, at Saint-Marcel. It houses a Gallo-Roman domestic altar with no known equivalent in Gaul.
The town grew from the first century onward on a Gallic oppidum: around seventy hectares, one thousand five hundred metres long. A monumental fountain, an aqueduct, baths, temples, necropolises, craft quarters, a Roman bridge.
The museum opened in 1990, built directly over the remains. Beneath it, a crypt-sanctuary discovered in 1986, with its domestic altar: no other is known in Gaul.
The theatre came in two phases. A first, from the middle of the first century, with seating initially in wood. A second around 150, larger, eighty-five metres across. It has never been excavated: only two of its walls have been uncovered, and whatever it holds is still underground.
A Roman garden displays around a hundred and fifty species cultivated at the time.
A Musée de France since 2003. The archaeological site is freely and openly accessible. The museum costs eight euros, combinable with the Chemiserie.