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Of Roman time in our days, please, discover to Saint Bertrand : 2000 years of history a stage in Moyen-Age on Saint-Jacques de Compostelle's roads.
The Medieval town is dominated by the cathedral saint - Marie built in the XI-th and XII-th century, and is characterized by its impressive bell tower donjon and a Gothic convent dating the XIII-th century. The choir of the cathedral shelters stalls realized between 1525 and 1535, and presents the influence of the Renaissance and the classic spirit.
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The high city possesses a well protected surrounding wall(speaker) the Roman pararement of which, remains still to the primitive state around the car park.
Lugdunum's antique site groups together(includes) several vestiges in low city: The thermes of the North, the thermes of the forum, the theater leaning on the hillsides of hills and who could welcome more than 2000 spectators, Marcellum which was one of the biggest markets place setting of the Roman West, the monument with circular surrounding wall(speaker), the paléochrétienne basilica built in the V-th century with its numerous sarcophaguses of the V-th and VII-th century, and the military camp east of the city.
Also to see : Barbacane, house Bridault, house of the Antique dealers, ancient prison, vaults Commingeoises, re-use, organ of the cathedral...
The basilica of Valcabrère's Saint-Just was built in the XII-th century on a place dedicated from the Roman time, then successively occupied by a heathen churchyard and a paléochrétien cemetery. The originality lives(lies) in the re-use in its walls of numerous fragments of architecture and sculpture of the gallo-Roman city.
The local cultural and tourist centre Olivétains, situated on the square of the cathedral saint - Marie, welcomes you on Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges/Valcabrère's site and proposes you its services : conducted, bare tours of Comminges and the High Garonne, Seminars...
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