Ambrussum
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Site
- Oppidum
- Staging post
- Pont Ambroix
- Excavation
- See also
- References
- External links
Ambrussum (, ; ) is a Roman archaeological site in Villetelle, Occitania, Southern France.
It is close to the modern town Lunel, between Nîmes and Montpellier. Ambrussum is notable for its museum, its staging post on the Via Domitia, its bridge Pont Ambroix over the Vidourle, painted by Gustave Courbet, and for its oppidum (fortified village). Its history of settlement spanned 400 years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ambrussum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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