Guided tours of the Gallo-Roman villa in Loupiac

Name: Guided tours of the Gallo-Roman villa in Loupiac
Start: 2020-09-19T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-09-20T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Villa gallo-romaine de Saint-Romain

Come and discover this site of ancient habitation and its remarkable mosaics! Discover the medieval remains and the museum in an 18th century building!

19 and 20 September 2020Passed

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Come and discover this site of ancient habitation and its remarkable mosaics! Discover the medieval remains and the museum in an 18th century building!

The site of Saint-Romain includes a set of buildings of various eras.
The ancient villa with private baths established between the 1st and the 6th and 7th centuries A.D. and reused during the High Middle Ages.
It includes a remarkable thermal complex, decorated with multicoloured mosaics. The dimensions of the residential part, ideally located on the banks of the Garonne, make it possible to imagine the importance of this former agricultural area.
The site also includes the remains of a Benedictine priory dedicated to Saint Romain built in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, as well as a small site museum housed in an 18th century residence.
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About the location

Villa gallo-romaine de Saint-Romain

Lieu-dit Saint-Romain, 33410 Loupiac

Gironde
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Located in Loupiac, near(about) the Garonne, the site of Saint Romain is compound(made up) of a Gallo-Roman villa constructions of which go from Ier in the VIIth century ap. JC, of a priory of the XIIth century and a house of the XVIIIth century. It is about a rich site which lived and was transformed over the centuries. The visible(obvious) part(party) of the Villa is established(constituted) of a thermal set(group) and in particular a natatio lined with a gallery mosaiced by a big(great) wealth of colours. Our guides will tell you the different construction phases which followed one another, of first thermal baths of Ier century up to the peak of the site in Ve century of our era. The site then served as setting-up(presence) in a building(ship) Benedictine devoted to Saint Romain in the XIth - XIIth centuries. Today he(it) serves as storage place of the pithy material(equipment). Come discover the columns of peristyles with their barrels(trunks) in overlapped sheets(leaves). This chapel of reduced dimension(size) and of extremely sober aestheticism is the only remaining evidence of this monastic place. Finally, in the course of the XVIIIth century a modern house becomes established on this location and reuses the chapel entirely. You will be able to discover someone of vestiges brought out(loosened) during the different series of excavations in the museum of the villa.