Autun: Rome's Forgotten Sister
Autun, a small town in Burgundy with a quiet appearance, which has a well-established past. It was one of the largest and most spectacular capitals of Roman Gaul. With its 12,000 intramural inhabitant…
Autun: Rome's Forgotten Sister
Autun, a small town in Burgundy with a quiet appearance, which has a well-established past. It was one of the largest and most spectacular capitals of Roman Gaul. With its 12,000 intramural inhabitants, today Autun is a small Saone et Loire town in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region. But a little less than 2,000 years ago, it was the second largest city in Gaul after Reims. It was then called Augustodunum, the 'Fortress of Augustus,' named after the most illustrious of Roman Emperor. —Canon y mus
Autun: Rome's Forgotten Sister
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Autun, a small town in Burgundy with a quiet appearance, which has a well-established past. It was one of the largest and most spectacular capitals of Roman Gaul. With its 12,000 intramural inhabitants, today Autun is a small Saone et Loire town in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region.
But a little less than 2,000 years ago, it was the second largest city in Gaul after Reims. It was then called Augustodunum, the 'Fortress of Augustus,' named after the most illustrious of Roman Emperor. —Canon y mus.