Cryptoportics Open House

Name: Cryptoportics Open House
Start: 2022-09-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Cryptoportiques d'Arles

Free visit of the cryptoportics

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

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You will discover this vast system of vaulted galleries dating from the 1st century BC, foundations of the ancient forum disappeared.

Types d'événement

Visite libre

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

About the location

Cryptoportiques d'Arles

Hôtel de ville, 13200 Arles

Bouches-du-Rhône
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Arles offers an interesting example of the adaptation of an ancient city to the civilization of medieval Europe. It preserves impressive Roman monuments as well as exceptional antique collections. Inside the walls, Saint-Trophime with its cloister is one of the major monuments of Provençal Romanesque art. Like all Roman cities, Arelate had a vast forum that has since disappeared. But to be able to build it on a flat surface, the Romans used, a century BC, a vast system of vaulted galleries. One can today circulate in this unusual place.