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Walk Lyon in AD 100

AI rebuilds Lugdunum (Lyon) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.

Step Into History · City walk

Imperial Lugdunum, 100

This is Lugdunum at the height of its early imperial prosperity: a provincial capital straddling the Saône and Rhône with temples, theatres on Fourvière, aqueducts, busy river quays and an imperial mint. The walk moves from the hilltop sanctuaries and theatres down to the rivers and market quays, passing workshops, the forum and the civic monuments that mark Roman civic life.

33 scenes — 21 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Lyon as it stood in AD 100 (“Lugdunum”).

The route, scene by scene

  1. 1. Approach on Via Agrippa
  2. 2. Monts d'Or Aqueduct
  3. 3. Fourvière Hill
  4. ↳ Atrium of a Patrician Domus · interior
  5. 4. Great Theatre of Fourvière
  6. ↳ Scaenae Frons and Stage House · interior
  7. 5. Odeon of Fourvière
  8. ↳ Small Covered Concert Hall · interior
  9. 6. Sanctuary of the Three Gauls
  10. ↳ Regional Council Curia · interior
  11. 7. The Confluence (Confluens)
  12. 8. Saône Right-Bank Wharves
  13. ↳ Wharfside Merchants' Counting Room · interior
  14. 9. Riverside Warehouses
  15. ↳ Granary and Riverside Warehouse · interior
  16. 10. Vaise District Workshops
  17. ↳ Bronze Smith's Workshop · interior
  18. 11. Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls
  19. ↳ Amphitheatre's Central Arena · interior
  20. 12. Municipal Forum
  21. ↳ Basilica's Public Hall · interior
  22. 13. Lugdunum Mint
  23. ↳ Coining Hall of the Mint · interior
  24. 14. Compendium (Rhône Bridge)
  25. 15. Via Agrippa Main Street
  26. 16. Public Baths (Thermae)
  27. ↳ Caldarium Hot Bath Chamber · interior
  28. 17. City Aqueduct Arches
  29. 18. Rhône Wharves
  30. ↳ Timbered Cargo Shed · interior
  31. 19. Roadside Necropolis (South Gate)
  32. 20. Fourvière Quarries
  33. 21. Fourvière Summit Panorama