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2. Arles Amphitheatre - Wikipedia

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   The Arles Amphitheatre (French: Arènes d'Arles; Occitan: Amfiteatre d'Arles) is a Roman amphitheatre in Arles, southern France. Two-tiered, it is probably the most prominent tourist attraction in the city which thrived in ancient Rome. The towers jutting out from the top are medieval add-ons.

3. Tours Amphitheatre - Wikipedia

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   The Tours amphitheater (also known as the Caesarodunum amphitheater) is a Roman amphitheatre located in the historic city center of Tours, France, immediately behind the well known Tours cathedral. It was built in the 1st century when the city was called Caesarodunum. It was built atop a small hill on the outskirts of the ancient urban area ...

4. Travel in classical antiquity - Wikipedia

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   The earliest maritime travel occurred on the Nile and other rivers in the Near East. Due to the lack of roads in ancient Greece, the most efficient way of shipping large amounts of goods, such as olive oil, was over the sea. Greek ships were built in varying sizes, with the largest accommodating as much as 500 tons of goods.

5. Ancient Roman monument — surrounding treasure-filled spring ...

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   The ancient Roman empire began invading modern-day France in the second century B.C., according to Britannia. By 50 B.C., they took control of the region and named it Gaul. By 50 B.C., they took ...

6. Ancient bridges over the Loire in the Touraine area - Wikipedia

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   Remains of the ancient bridge at Fondettes. In the 1970s, clusters of stakes in the Loire riverbed downstream from Tours were observed. To confirm the hypothesis of an ancient bridge crossing at this location and to date its construction, samples of stakes were subjected to analysis using carbon-14 dating and dendrochronology. [Cou 1]

7. Gallo-Roman enclosure of Tours - Wikipedia

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   It appears that this gate was already depicted around 1780 by the actor and illustrator Pierre Beaumesnil , who was commissioned by the Academy of Inscriptions and Letters to reproduce ancient monuments in France, including those in Tours. One of his drawings shows the upper arch of a walled-up and almost completely buried gate, located ...