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A road paved with blocks of stone ran from north to south through the centre of Glanum. Under the street was a drain which carried away rainwater and sewage. In 49 BC, Julius Caesar captured Marseille and, after a period of destructive civil wars, the romanisation of Provence and Glanum began.
Mausoleum of Glanum. The Mausoleum of Glanum is a Gallo-Roman monument erected between 30 and 20 BC, located south of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France.It stands outside the pomerium of the city of Glanum, which is now an archaeological site. it is in an exceptional state of conservation, one of the best preserved Roman structures in the world.
During Roman times the people of Provence worshiped a wide variety of gods and religions; they worshiped goddesses of fecundity (called matres), gods living in springs of fresh water (such as the Vediantiae at Cimiez); gods of nature (the mistral wind, worshipped as Circius); and Mont Sainte-Victoire, worshipped under its Ligure name, Vintur.
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The Glanum Dam, also known as the Vallon de Baume dam, was a Roman arch dam built to supply water to the Roman town of Glanum, the remains of which stand outside the town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in Southern France. It was situated south of Glanum, in a gorge that cut into the hills of the Alpilles in the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis.
' Beautiful Sun ') is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. It adjoins the Principality of Monaco to its south. The commune of Beausoleil was established in 1904; it was supposed to be named Monte-Carlo Supérieur (French: [mɔ̃t kaʁlɔ sypeʁjœʁ]; lit.
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Gallia Narbonensis (Latin for "Gaul of Narbonne", from its chief settlement) [n 1] was a Roman province located in what is now Occitania and Provence, in Southern France. It was also known as Provincia Nostra ("Our Province"), because it was the first Roman province north of the Alps , and as Gallia Transalpina ("Transalpine Gaul ...