archaeological site

Tombs outside city gate.

Arco di San Damiano.

Arch of Saint Damiano (Arco di San Damiano) on Via Flaminia at entrance to town.

View of the site.

Map of the outdoor area.

Stone lion in museum.

Entrance, museum, cafe.

Ancient Roman town on the Via Flaminia.

Ambrussum (Oppidum d'Ambrussum) was a Roman staging post and settlement along the Via Domitia. No new town was built in this location, so you can see it as it was. Part of Pont Ambroix, a Roman bridge, remains. You can see where the lower town or staging post was. Then you walk along Roman...

A paved square that would have been the town center.

Close up of the wheel tracks.

More roads with wheel tracks.

More roads with wheel tracks.

Remains of the ramparts that surrounded the town.

Remains of the upper town.

In Roman times houses lined this road. Look on the right to see stone marking a doorway.

Remains of a Roman road that went from the Via Domitia to the upper town. You can see wheel tracks.

Remains of a Roman road that went from the Via Domitia to the upper town. You can see wheel tracks.

This bridge was on the Via Domitia, a Roman road that went from Italy to Spain.

Remains of the Ambroix bridge over the River Vidourle.