A day trip to visit a friend I hadn’t seen in three years took me to a beautiful site in Nyon, just 15 minutes from Geneva. I’d been to the city before to see the Roman Museum (in its interesting 1970s underground-bunker-style building) and then the 12th-century Nyon Castle, but I hadn’t come accross these […]

On Friday afternoon, I decided to visit the so-called Amphitheater of the Three Gauls of Lugdunum (Amphithéâtre des Trois Gaules). I found the name intriguing, but I had no idea what it referred to (apart from the obvious fact that it’s a Gallo-Roman amphitheater). The amphitheater is located in a part of Lyon called La […]

After visiting the site of the thermae, I walked to the main (and more famous) site of Lugdunum, with the Roman Theatre, the Odéon, and the Gallo-Roman Museum (and some other interesting things). From far you can already see how impressive and complex this site is, the social, cultural and political center of Lugdunum. The […]

I’ve recently realized that I live just a few metro stops away from one of the most important Roman archaeological sites in the world: the Roman theatre of Lyon (or Lugdunum), in Fourvière. I moved to Lyon a little over two months from Paris (an incredible city full of history, though not particularly rich in […]