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| Jublains Near Laval, the Roman city of Les Jublains offers one of the best preserved sites with amateur and professional historians alike, as well as tourists, flocking there to admire its wonderful ruins. It is the biggest site of antiquity in Western France. The first signs of occupation trace back to the 3rd century BC. Stepping back in time one discovers the Fortress, the Temple, the Thermes where people took their baths, the Theatre that |
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| The fortress is the most important and the most enigmatic element of the site. For a long time, it was considered to be a military camp. Now it is thought more likely to have been a fortified store supplying the roads leading to Rome from its North-West provinces. .It contains three parts : at the centre, the original building (about A.D. 200) ; around are the earthen ramparts (end of the 3rd century) and finally a perimeter wall of 120 metres (about A.D.290). The wall appears to have been unfinished and its abandonment coincides with the decline of Jublains (fortress and archeological center, road to Montsurs). The county archeological museum offers to visitors tools which will make the different monuments of Jublains more comprehensible by means of an audiovisual presentation, interactive computers and models. Beside the different elements of excavation of Jublains, the museum also present the major themes of archeology of the Mayenne heritage, from the trappings of the Dark Ages to the crafts of the Middle Ages. |
| assembled populace and notables. The Archaeological Museum explains its flourishing past and the history of Mayenne.The temple was rebuilt in stone during the 1st century (located on the road to Mayenne). The thermal baths were transformed into a church at the end of the Dark Ages. You see them under the church by way of an archeological crypt. The théatre from where you can discover a panoramic view on the plain of Evron (located in the center of the town, on the road to Evron). |
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