Archaeological Sites in France
City/town/settlement in France (36)
Aléria
Aléria is an ancient settlement on Corsica's eastern coast, founded by Phocaean Greeks around 566 BC according to Herodotus. The site became a major Etruscan trading post and…
Antibes
Excavations have uncovered Greek and Roman pottery, amphorae attesting to centuries of maritime trade.
Archaeological Site of Alba-la-Romaine
The archaeological site of Alba-la-Romaine, corresponding to the Gallo-Roman city of Alba Augusta Helviorum or Alba Helviorum is located near the present town of Alba-la-Romaine.…
Archaeological Site of Grand
The archaeological site of Grand contains a wide amphitheater and a mosaic of 232 m2. It is located in the French department of Vosges, in the region Grand Est, in France. It was…
Argentovaria
Argentovaria, also known as Ödenburg, is the collective term for a late Roman military installation and a civilian settlement in the area of Biesheim in Alsace. The ancient sites…
Autun
Autun (ancient Augustodunum) was founded during the Principate era by Emperor Augustus as the Roman capital of the Gallic Aedui tribe, replacing their earlier oppidum at Bibracte.…
Bibracte
Bibracte, a Gallic oppidum, was the capital of the Aedui and one of the most important hillforts in Gaul. It was located near modern Autun in Burgundy, France. The material…
Cahors
Cahors was founded as Divona Cadurcorum in the 1st century AD when Emperor Augustus established the city to administer the territory of the Cadurci, a Celtic people of Gaul. The…
Castellane
Castellane is a very old city located upstream of the Gorges du Verdon. Castellane's name appeared in texts for the first time circa 965–977 as Petra Castellana. Neolithic nomads…
Cenabum
Cenabum, Gaul was the name of the capital city of the Carnutes, located near the present French city of Orléans. Cenabum was an oppidum and a thriving commercial town on the Loire…
City of Alesia
Alesia was the capital of the Mandubii, one of the Gallic tribes allied with the Aedui. The Celtic oppidum was conquered by Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars and afterwards…
Cularo
Cularo was the name of the Gallic city which evolved into modern Grenoble. The earliest remaining reference to what is now Grenoble dates back to a July 43 BC letter written by…
Entremont (Oppidum)
Entremont is a 3.5-hectare archaeological site three kilometres from Aix-en-Provence at the extreme south of the Puyricard plateau. In antiquity, the oppidum at Entremont was the…
Fa'ahia
Faʻahia is an early Polynesian occupation site in the north-east of the island of Huahine, in the Society Islands. With the neighbouring Vaitoʻotia site, it dates to between 700…
Glanum
Glanum was an ancient city in what is now southern France, situated below a gorge on the Alpilles mountains about 1 km south of modern Saint-Remy-de-Provence.
Hane, Marquesas Islands
A key archaeological site on the island of Ua Huka in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, first excavated by Yosihiko H. Sinoto in 1964-65. The Hane dune site is considered…
Jublains Archaeological Site
The Jublains archeological site is a cluster of ruins, mostly dating back to Ancient Rome, in the current French commune of Jublains in the département of Mayenne in the Pays de…
Le Mas-d'Azil
Le Mas-d'Azil is a commune in Ariège, France, containing the Grotte du Mas d'Azil, the typesite for the prehistoric Azilian culture dating to around 9000 BC. This massive…
Lugdunum
Lugdunum was an important Roman city in Gaul, established on the current site of Lyon. The Roman city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus, but continued an existing…
Lutetia
The first traces of the Roman occupation of Lutetia appeared at the end of the 1st century BC, during the reign of the Emperor Augustus. By the beginning of the 1st century AD,…
Merri, Orne
A commune in the Orne department, Normandy, France, notable for the Camp de Bierre, one of the largest fortified archaeological sites in western France. Occupying over 4 hectares…
Monte Lazzu
Monte Lazzu is a Neolithic archaeological site on the heights of Tiuccia near Casaglione in western Corsica, France, commanding views over the Liamone plain and the Gulf of…
Nîmes
The Neolithic site of Serre Paradis reveals the presence of semi-nomadic cultivators in the period 4000 to 3500 BCE on the site of Nîmes. The hill of Mt. Cavalier was the site of…
Nyons
Nyons, a commune in south-eastern France, lies in the Drôme department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Nyons is a sub-prefecture of the department, and its olives have PDO…
Olmeto
Olmeto is a commune in Corse-du-Sud on the island of Corsica, France, containing two notable archaeological sites: the Castellu de Cuntorba, a fortified prehistoric settlement…
Oppidum d'Altimurium
The Oppidum d’Altimurium, also known as the Oppidum Murviel-les-Montpellier, is an ancient hill-town near the village of Murviel-lès-Montpellier, France. The site, which overlooks…
Oppidum d'Ensérune
The Oppidum d'Enserune is a major Gallic hill-town near Nissan-lez-Enserune, between Beziers and Narbonne in southern France, occupied continuously from the 6th century BC to the…
Oppidum de Roque de Viou
The Oppidum de Roque de Viou is on a hilltop overlooking the valley called the Vaunage, above the village of Nages-et-Solorgues, in Gard, between Nîmes et Sommières, in Occitanie,…
Oppidum des Castels
The Oppidum de Nages or Oppidum des Castels is on a hilltop overlooking the valley called the Vaunage, above the village of Nages-et-Solorgues, in Gard, between Nîmes et…
Oppidum de Verduron
The Oppidum de Verduron is a fortified Celto-Ligurian settlement on Verduron Hill in Marseille's 15th arrondissement. Founded in the late 3rd century BC and abandoned by the early…
Orange, Vaucluse
Orange is a commune in Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, southeastern France, located about 21 km north of Avignon. Today it is Vaucluse's second-most populated city after…
Pech Maho
Pech Maho is a fortified pre-Roman oppidum in Sigean, Aude, southern France, occupied from the mid-6th century to the late 3rd century BC. Built on a triangular limestone hill…
Presa-Tusiu
Presa-Tusiu is a multi-period archaeological site in the commune of Altagène, Corsica, excavated by François de Lanfranchi from 1990-1992. The site spans three cultural phases:…
Site Archéologique de Glanum
Glanum is an archaeological site in the Alpilles mountains featuring Roman ruins. The site served as a sanctuary at the crossroads of two ancient routes linking Italy to Spain.…
Vaison-la-Romaine
Vaison-la-Romaine, ancient Vasio Vocontiorum, is one of the most extensive Roman archaeological sites in France, located in the Vaucluse department of Provence. The two main…
Vertillum
Vertillum is a Gallo-Roman site in the modern commune of Vertault in the Côte-d'Or department of eastern France. Vertillum was classified as a Historical Monument in 1875. It…
Cave Structures in France (33)
Abri de la Madeleine
The archaeological site Abri de la Madeleine is a rock shelter under an overhanging cliff situated near Tursac, in the Dordogne département of the Aquitaine région of southwestern…
Araguina-Sennola
Araguina-Sennola is a prehistoric rock shelter in Bonifacio, Corsica, occupied during the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age as both a habitat and burial site. Its most famous…
Barry Troglodyte Village
The Barry Troglodyte Village is an archaeological site near Bollène, northwestern Vaucluse. It is located on a forested hill that overlooks the Rhône valley. A group of caves and…
Bruniquel Cave
Bruniquel Cave is an archeological site near Bruniquel, in an area which has many paleolithic sites, east of Montauban in southwestern France. Annular (ring) and accumulation…
Cap Blanc Rock Shelter
Cap Blanc is a Magdalenian-era limestone rock shelter in the Vezere Valley, Dordogne. Its 13-metre frieze of relief sculptures depicts horses, bison, and reindeer, with the…
Cave of Aurignac
The Cave of Aurignac is an archaeological site in the commune of Aurignac, Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. The eponymous location represents the type site of the…
Cave of Mayrières Supérieure
A prehistoric cave near Bruniquel in Tarn-et-Garonne, France, that once contained two 15,000-year-old bison paintings. In 1992, approximately 70 members of the Eclaireurs de…
Cave of Niaux
A major Magdalenian cave complex in the Ariege department of southwestern France, with over 14 km of underground passages. The cave also preserves children's footprints in the…
Cave of the Trois-Frères
The Cave of the Trois-Frères is a cave in southwestern France famous for its paintings. It is located in Montesquieu-Avantès, in the Ariège département. The cave is named for…
Caves of Arcy-sur-Cure
The caves of Arcy-sur-Cure are a series of caves located on the commune of Arcy-sur-Cure, Burgundy, France. Some of them contained archaeological artefacts, from the Mousterian to…
Caves of Gargas
The Caves of Gargas in the Pyrenees region of France are known for their cave art from the Upper Paleolithic period - about 27,000 years old. The caves are located near the town…
Chauvet Cave
Rather than depicting only the familiar herbivores that predominate in Paleolithic cave art, i.e. horses, aurochs, mammoths, etc., the walls of the Chauvet Cave feature many…
Cosquer Cave
Cosquer Cave is located in the Calanque de Morgiou in Marseille, France. Nearly 500 instances of cave art remain which date back to two distinct periods during the Upper…
Cro-Magnon Rock Shelter
The Cro-Magnon rock shelter is a landmark Upper Paleolithic site in Les Eyzies, Dordogne, southwestern France. Discovered in March 1868 during railway construction, Louis Lartet…
Font-de-Gaume
Font-de-Gaume is a cave near Les Eyzies in the Dordogne department of south-west France. The cave contains prehistoric polychrome cave paintings and engravings dating to the…
Grotte de Cussac
The Grotte de Cussac is a Paleolithic cave in France's Dordogne valley containing over 150 engraved artworks depicting bison, horses, mammoths, rhinoceroses, ibex, birds, and…
Grotte de Gabillou
The Grotte de Gabillou also known as Grotte de las Agnelas is a cave in France in which prehistoric ornaments stemming from the Paleolithic period exist. It is situated in the…
Grotte de Lombrives
Grotte de Lombrives or Lombrives Cave is a large natural cavern located in Ornolac-Ussat-les-Bains, at the eastern edge of the Pyrénées Ariégeoises Natural Regional Park, in the…
Isturitz and Oxocelhaya Caves
The Isturitz and Oxocelhaya caves are an important Paleolithic site where a Neanderthal mandible was found, as well as later modern human finds associated with the Aurignacian,…
La Chaire a Calvin
La Chaire a Calvin is a rock shelter near the village of Mouthiers-sur-Boëme in the Département of Charente, situated in the valley of the Gersac stream. The shelter is on a cliff…
La Chapelle-aux-Saints
The La Chapelle-aux-Saints cave, bordering the Sourdoire valley, revealed many archeological artifacts belonging to the late Mousterian techno-complex, including the first ever…
La Ferrassie
La Ferrassie is an archaeological site in Savignac-de-Miremont France. The site, located in the Vézère valley, consists of a large and deep cave flanked by two rock shelters…
La Grotte des Fées
La Grotte des Fées is a cave located in Châtelperron, in the central French department of Allier. The name refers to three caves, of which one is collapsed. The caves are located…
La Marche Cave
The La Marche cave is located in the Lussac-les-Châteaux area of western France. It is at the bottom of a small valley bordered by the Petit Moulin river. It most likely is the…
Lascaux
Lascaux is a network of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France. Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and…
Laugerie-Basse
Laugerie-Basse is an important Upper Paleolithic archaeological site within the territory of the French commune Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in Dordogne. It is known for several…
Le Moustier
Le Moustier is an archaeological site comprising two rock shelters in Peyzac-le-Moustier, Dordogne, France. It is renowned for the discovery of a Homo neanderthalensis skeleton in…
Le Regourdou
Le Regourdou is an archaeological site in the Dordogne department, France, on top of a hill just 800 m from the famous cave complex of Lascaux. At this now collapsed 35 m deep…
Les Combarelles
Les Combarelles is a cave in Les Eyzies de Tayac, Dordogne, France, which was inhabited by Cro-Magnon people between approximately 13,000 to 11,000 years ago. Holding more than…
Marsoulas Cave
Marsoulas Cave is a Magdalenian-era decorated cave in Haute-Garonne, French Pyrenees, featuring a straight gallery about 100 metres long. A large conch shell (31 x 18 cm)…
Pair-non-Pair Cave
The Pair-non-Pair Cave is located near the village of Prignac-et-Marcamps. Only discovered in 1881 it is known for remarkable prehistoric parietal engravings - petroglyphic…
Pech Merle
Pech Merle is a prehistoric cave at Cabrerets in the Lot département of Occitania, France, about 32 km east of Cahors. It spans over 2 km across two levels, with 1,200 m open to…
Rouffignac Cave
The Rouffignac cave, in the French commune of Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac in the Dordogne département, contains over 250 engravings and cave paintings dating back to the…
Gate/archway/bridge in France (12)
Pont Ambroix
The Pont Ambroix or Pont d'Ambrussum was a 1st-century BC Roman bridge in the south of France that was part of the Via Domitia. It crossed the Vidourle at Ambrussum between…
Pont de Bornègre
The Pont de Bornègre is an ancient bridge of the Roman aqueduct to Nîmes, which also includes the famous Pont du Gard, between the communes of Saint-Maximin, and Argilliers. It is…
Pont des Marchands
A Roman bridge in Narbonne dating to the 1st century AD, originally featuring six arches over the Canal de la Robine. The Pont des Marchands is one of only a handful of bridges…
Pont Flavien
The Pont Flavien is a Roman bridge across the River Touloubre in Saint-Chamas, Bouches-du-Rhône department. The single-arch crossing, which was built from limestone, was on a…
Pont Julien
The Pont Julien is a Roman stone arch bridge spanning the Calavon River in southeastern France. Built in 3 BC on the Via Domitia, the major Roman road linking Italy to Gaul, it…
Pont Serme
The Pont Serme or Pons Selinus, later called the Pons Septimus, was a Roman bridge of the Via Domitia in the Aude department, commune of Coursan. The approximately 1500 m long…
Pont sur la Laye
The Pont sur la Laye or Pont roman de Mane is an old stone arch bridge across the stream Laye in the French Provence close to the town Mane. The 40-metre-long and 3.2-metre-wide…
Porte Noire
The Porte Noire (literally, "Black Gate") is a Roman triumphal arch in Besançon, France. The limestone arch was located at the southern end of the cardo, the main north-to-south…
Porte Taillée
The Porte Taillée is a Roman-era city gate in Besançon, France, carved through Saint-Étienne hill. Constructed under Emperor Vespasian or Marcus Aurelius (late 1st to 2nd century…
Roman Bridge, Saint-Thibéry
Only four arches remain today after flood damage before 1536 and in 1683. Listed as a Historical Monument since 1862.
Roman Bridge, Vaison-la-Romaine
The Roman Bridge at Vaison-la-Romaine is a Roman bridge over the river Ouvèze in the southern French town of Vaison-la-Romaine. The bridge was built by the Romans in the 1st…
Triumphal Arch of Orange
The Triumphal Arch of Orange is a triumphal arch located in the town of Orange, southeast France. The arch contains an inscription dedicated to emperor Tiberius in AD 27. The arch…
Dolmen in France (9)
Bizzicu Rossu
Bizzicu Rossu is an archaeological site in Corsica, situated in the commune of Grossa. The site features stone structures characteristic of Corsica's prehistoric monumental…
Caixa de Rotllan
The Caixa de Rotllan is made of three upright stones in a H-shape, supporting a thick roofing stone and delimiting a rectangular, medium-sized chamber. The entrance faces…
Cardiccia
Cardiccia is a megalithic dolmen (locally called a stazzona) in the commune of Sartene, southern Corsica, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 4000-2000 BC). At…
Fontaine-les-Bassets
A Neolithic dolmen known as Pierre Levee (also called Pierre Pleureuse or Pierre des Veuves) located in the commune of Fontaine-les-Bassets, Orne department, Normandy, France. The…
Habloville
A commune in the Orne department of Normandy, France, containing two Neolithic monuments. The Dolmen des Bignes is a stone table measuring 3.25 by 2.95 metres, located on the…
La Ferté-en-Ouche
A commune in the Orne department of northwestern France containing Neolithic megalithic monuments classified as Monuments Historiques. The site includes a menhir at…
Mane Braz
Mane Braz is a Neolithic megalithic tomb complex located 2 km southeast of Erdeven in Brittany, France, dating to approximately 5000-3000 BC. The principal structure is a…
Peyre-Brune
Peyre-Brune is a Neolithic dolmen situated near Saint-Aquilin in the department of the Dordogne. The dolmen Peyre-Brune is situated next to a forest track leading from Seyssac, a…
Table des Marchand
La Table des Marchands est un dolmen situe sur le site megalithique de Locmariaquer, dans le departement du Morbihan, en Bretagne. Il fait partie du complexe megalithique de…
Megalithic stones in France (8)
Alignements de Kerzerho
The Kerzerho alignments in Erdeven, Morbihan, Brittany are the second most important megalithic site in France after Carnac. Dating to the Neolithic period (c. 5000-2000 BC), the…
Carnac Stones
The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites near the south coast of Brittany in northwestern France, consisting of stone alignments, dolmens,…
Erdeven
Erdeven hosts the Kerzerho alignments, the second largest megalithic site in Brittany after Carnac. Dating to the Neolithic period (5000-2000 BC), the site originally featured…
Locmariaquer Megaliths
The Locmariaquer megaliths are a Neolithic monumental complex in Brittany, France. The site includes the Er-Grah tumulus passage grave, the Table des Marchand dolmen, and the…
Menhir de Champ-Dolent
The Menhir de Champ-Dolent is a menhir, or upright standing stone, located in a field outside the town of Dol-de-Bretagne. It is the second largest standing stone in Brittany and…
Menhir du Camp de César
A Neolithic standing stone in Avrillé, Vendée, also known as the "King of Menhirs." It stands 8.7 m tall (7 m above ground), making it the tallest menhir in Vendée.
Paddaghju
Paddaghju (also known as Palaghju or Palaggiu) is a megalithic alignment site in the commune of Sartene, southwestern Corsica.
Verziau of Gargantua
The verziau of Gargantua (or vierzeux of Gargantua), also known as Haute-Borne, is a menhir at Bois-lès-Pargny in Aisne, France. The menhir is north of the town of…
Amphitheatre in France (6)
Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls
The Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls of Lugdunum (Lyon) was part of the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls dedicated to the cult of Rome and Augustus celebrated by the 60 Gallic tribes…
Arena of Nîmes
The Arena of Nîmes is a Roman amphitheatre in Nîmes, Southern France. Built around 100 AD, only about twenty years after the Colosseum of Rome, it is one of the best-preserved…
Arènes de Fréjus
A Roman amphitheatre in Frejus built in the late 1st century AD, measuring 113 m by 83 m externally with an arena of 69 m by 39 m. Originally seating 12,000 spectators, it hosted…
Arènes de Lutèce
The Arènes de Lutèce are among the most important ancient Roman remains in Paris (known in antiquity as Lutetia). Constructed in the 1st century AD, this theatre could once seat…
Arles Amphitheatre
The Arles Amphitheatre is a Roman amphitheatre in Arles, southern France. Built in 90 AD, the amphitheatre held over 20,000 spectators of chariot races and bloody hand-to-hand…
Tours Amphitheatre
The Tours Amphitheatre (1st c. AD) is a Roman amphitheatre in Tours, France, located behind the cathedral.
Archaeological site in France (6)
Casteddu di Puzzonu
Casteddu di Puzzonu (Punta di Casteddu) is a protohistoric archaeological site in the commune of Sartene, southwestern Corsica, occupying a steep granite summit at 228m elevation…
Combe-Capelle
Combe-Capelle is a Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic site situated in the Couze valley in the Périgord region of Southern France. Henri-Marc Ami carried out excavations in the area…
Currachjaghju
Currachjaghju is an archaeological site in the Corsican commune of Levie, in France. Currachjaghju is counted among the Middle Neolithic monuments of Corsica, a period that on the…
Gritulu
Gritulu is an archaeological site in the commune of Luri, Haute-Corse, Corsica, France.
Pughjaredda
Pughjaredda (also spelled Poghjaredda) is a megalithic archaeological site in the commune of Sotta, southern Corsica, dating to the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 5000-4000 BC). The…
Tintignac
Tintignac is a hamlet near Naves in the Corrèze region of France, home to the archaeological remains of a Gallic and Gallo-Roman sanctuary dating from the 3rd century BC to the…
Temple complex in France (6)
Ara trium Galliarum
The Ara trium Galliarum ("Altar of the Three Gauls") was a Roman sanctuary at Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France), founded by Drusus at the confluence of the Rhone and Saone rivers.…
Fanum d'Aron
Fanum d'Aron is a fanum, or Romano-Celtic temple, located in Aurillac, a French commune in the Auvergne region. Discovered in 1970 in the southwest of Aurillac, the temple was…
Maison Carré
The Maison carrée is an ancient Roman temple in Nîmes, southern France; it is one of the best-preserved Roman temples to survive in the territory of the former Roman Empire. It is…
Taputapuatea Marae
Taputapuatea Marae is a monumental open-air temple complex on the southeastern coast of Raiatea, the second largest of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. Dedicated to the…
Temple of Mars, Corseul
The Temple "of Mars" is the vestige of a Romano-Celtic fanum and its courtyard, located in Corseul, in the department of Côtes-d'Armor. The temple is located at a place called…
Tower of Vesunna
The Tower of Vesunna is the vestige of a Gallo-Roman fanum dedicated to Vesunna, a tutelary goddess of the Petrocorii. The "Tower" is the remains of a fanum's cella located in…
Mound/tumulus in France (5)
Er-Grah Tumulus
(3300 BC) The Er-Grah Tumulus is a Neolithic passage grave in Locmariaquer, Brittany, part of the Locmariaquer Megalithic Complex. Measuring 140 metres (459 ft) in length, it was…
Graves of Sainte-Colombe-sur-Seine
The Graves of Sainte-Colombe-sur-Seine are several burial mounds dating from the 6th century BC. The burials are associated with the Iron Age Hallstatt culture. In the 19th…
Saint-Michel Tumulus
The Saint-Michel tumulus is a megalithic grave mound, located east of Carnac in Brittany. It is the largest grave mound in continental Europe. The tumulus was built during the…
Tumulus of Bougon
The Tumulus of Bougon or Necropolis of Bougon is a group of five Neolithic barrows located in Bougon, near La-Mothe-Saint-Héray, between Exoudun and Pamproux in…
Vix Grave
The Vix Grave is a burial mound near the village of Vix in northern Burgundy. The broader site is a prehistoric Celtic complex from the Late Hallstatt and Early La Tène periods,…
Reservoir/aqueduct/canal in France (5)
Aqueduct of Luynes
The Aqueduct of Luynes is a former Gallo-Roman bridge aqueduct located in Luynes. The remains show a stack of five arches and it is the most famous Roman monument in the…
Aqueduct of the Gier
Following a sinuous path, at 85 km the aqueduct of the Gier is the longest known of the Roman aqueducts. Leaving the uplands of the Massif du Pilat, department of the Loire, the…
Barbegal Aqueduct and Mills
The Barbegal aqueduct and mills was a Roman watermill complex in the commune of Fontvieille, Bouches-du-Rhône, near the town of Arles. The Barbegal site is located 12 kilometres…
Roman Aqueduct of Paris
The Roman Aqueduct of Paris was a major engineering system built to supply water to Lutetia (Roman Paris). Constructed in the late 2nd century AD, this gravity-fed aqueduct…
Roman Aqueduct of Vieu
The Roman aqueduct of Vieu is a Roman underground aqueduct, which is located in Vieu in the French department of Ain in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The aqueduct has been the…
Megalithic structures in France (4)
Dolmen de Bagneux
The Dolmen de Bagneux is a megalith located in Saumur, France. It is the largest dolmen in France, and one of the largest in Europe. The dolmen measures 4.25 metres wide at the…
Gallardet Dolmen
Gallardet Dolmen is a dolmen near the village of Le Pouget in Languedoc. It is a large tumulus, containing a 12 metre long alley. The main chamber, 6 metres long by 4 metres wide,…
La Roche-aux-Fées
La Roche-aux-Fées is a Neolithic gallery grave, or dolmen, located in the commune of Essé. The dolmen consists of more than forty stones forming a corridor four times longer than…
Tremeca
Tremeca is an archaeological site in Corsica. The site is located in west-central Corsica, near Casaglione. Tremeca was first described by the archaeologist Roger Grosjean in his…
Standing stone in France (4)
Craménil
Craménil is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.
La Noce de Pierres
La Noce de Pierres (Breton: An Eured Ven) is a prehistoric alignment of 77 standing stones located at the foot of Menez Michael (Saint-Michel-de-Brasparts) in the hills of…
Putanges-le-Lac
Putanges-le-Lac is a commune in the Orne department of Normandy, France, whose territory includes the Neolithic standing stone known as La Droite Pierre. Located in the former…
Tournai-sur-Dive
Tournai-sur-Dive is a commune in the Orne department of Normandy, France, home to the Menhir dit la Pierre au Bordeu, a Neolithic standing stone classified as a Monument…
Other sites in France (45)
A Figa
A Figa (Corsican for "The Fig") is a Middle Neolithic rock shelter near Punta di Murtoli in the commune of Sartene, southern Corsica. Radiocarbon dating places its primary…
Alyscamps
The Alyscamps is a large Roman necropolis, which is a short distance outside the walls of the old town of Arles. It was one of the most famous necropolises of the ancient world.…
Ancient Theatre of Fourvière
The Ancient Theatre of Fourvière is a Roman theatre in Lyon, France. It was built on the hill of Fourvière, which is situated in the center of the Roman city. The theatre is part…
Apazzu
Apazzu is a prehistoric megalithic site in the Sartenais region of southern Corsica, near Sartène. Archaeological excavations have uncovered significant artifacts, including a…
Araghju
Araghju (Castellu d'Araghju) is a Bronze Age site of the Torrean culture in southern Corsica.
Barnenez
The Cairn of Barnenez is a Neolithic monument located near Plouezoc'h, on the Kernéléhen peninsula in northern Finistère, Brittany, France. Radiocarbon dates indicate that the…
Basilica of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains
The basilica of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains in Metz, France, is one of the oldest churches in Europe. The building began life in the 4th century when Metz was an important…
Campu di Bonu
Campu di Bonu is an archaeological site in Corsica, France, located in the commune of Bisinchi. The site consists of two graves dating from the 3rd millennium BC.
Casteddu di Tappa
Casteddu di Tappa is a Bronze Age archaeological site of the Torrean culture on a rocky promontory dominating the Caniccione valley near Porto-Vecchio, Corsica. Excavated by Roger…
Cauria
Megalithic archaeological site on the plateau of Cauria near Sartene in southern Corsica, covering 60 hectares with three major monument groups dating from the 5th millennium BC…
Ceccia
Ceccia is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Porto-Vecchio, southern Corsica, dating to approximately 1350 BC. The Torrean casteddu stands on a rocky outcrop overlooking the…
Cirque Romain de Vienne
This Roman circus complex in Vienne, France, is known from 19th-century excavations. Only a unique vestige survives today — the so-called Pyramid of Vienne, locally called "la…
Cucuruzzu
Cucuruzzu (Cuccuruzzu) is a Bronze Age fortified settlement in southern Corsica, one of the island's rare casteddi, located in the commune of Levie. Dating from around 1800 to 800…
Er Lannic
Er Lannic is a small islet in the Gulf of Morbihan, Brittany, containing two semi-circular megalithic enclosures comprising around 114 standing stones. The northern enclosure…
European Archaeological Park of Bliesbruck-Reinheim
The European Archaeological Park of Bliesbruck-Reinheim is a cross-border museum straddling the French-German border in Bliesbruck (Moselle) and Gersheim (Saarland). Created in…
Ferrier of Tannerre-en-Puisaye
The ancient ferrier of Tannerre-en-Puisaye, located in the village of Tannerre-en-Puisaye in Burgundy, France, is a historic site used for mining and working of iron. The works…
Filitosa
Filitosa is a megalithic site in southern Corsica, France. The period of occupation spans from the end of the Neolithic era and the beginning of the Bronze Age, until around the…
Gavrinis
Gavrinis is a small island in the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany, France. The island is famous for its important passage grave, a megalithic monument from the Neolithic period,…
Grenoble Archaeological Museum
The Musee archeologique Saint-Laurent occupies a historic parish church at the foot of the Bastille in Grenoble, showcasing 1,500 years of religious and funerary history. The site…
Hotié de Viviane
The Hotié de Viviane is one of the prehistoric monuments in the Forest of Brocéliande cursorily described in the 19th century, but more recently, following the fires that have…
La Graufesenque
La Graufesenque is an archaeological site 2 km from Millau, Aveyron, France, at the confluence of the rivers Tarn and Dourbie. As Condatomagus (market of the confluent), it was…
Lavau Grave
The Lavau Grave is a princely burial dating to the middle of the 5th century BC, located by the town of Lavau in the Aube department of north-central France.
Le Grand-Pressigny
A major Chalcolithic flint mining and production centre in the Indre-et-Loire department of central France, active around 3000 BC during the Final Neolithic. The site produced…
Little St Bernard Pass
The Little St Bernard Pass is a mountain pass in the Alps on the France–Italy border. Its saddle is at 2188 metres above sea level. The road across this pass is usually open from…
Mercantour National Park
Mercantour National Park, established in 1979, is a French national park located in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Alpes-Maritimes departments. The park welcomes approximately…
Monte Grossu
Monte Grossu is an archaeological site in Corsica. It is located in the commune of Biguglia. Human occupation dates back to the Neolithic and Bronze Age. According to…
Pont du Gard
The Pont du Gard is one of the best preserved Roman aqueduct bridges. The bridge has three tiers of arches made from Shelly limestone and stands 48.8 m high. The structure's…
Quelfénnec
Quelfénnec is an archaeological site in the French commune of Plussulien, in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany. The site is a dolerite quarry which was exploited in the…
Ramparts of Senlis
The Ramparts of Senlis are Gallo-Roman city walls built in the 3rd century to defend Augustomagus against Alemanni and Frankish invasions. The wall stretches 800 metres and…
Rinaghju
Rinaghju (also Renaghju) is a megalithic alignment on the Cauria plateau in the commune of Sartene, southern Corsica, part of a complex that includes the Stantari alignments and…
Roman Theatre of Arles
The Roman Theatre of Arles is a 1st-century Roman theatre, built during the reign of Caesar Augustus. It is located next to the Arles Amphitheatre in the city of Arles, Provence,…
Roman Theatre of Orange
The Roman Theatre of Orange is a Roman theatre in Orange, Vaucluse, France. It was built early in the 1st century AD. The Orange theatre was created under the rule of Augustus,…
Roman Villa of Chiragan
The Roman villa of Chiragan is a Roman villa located in Martres-Tolosane. The villa was located on the banks of the river Garonne, on the road to Toulouse and was occupied between…
Romano-Gallic Baths of Entrammes
The Roman-Gaul Baths of Entrammes is a complex of Gallo-Roman thermal baths in Entrammes, Mayenne. The baths were partially incorporated into a church with the hypocaust surviving…
Temple of Janus, Autun
The "Temple of Janus" is a Romano-Celtic religious structure located in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, France, to the North-West of the ancient city of Augustodunum. The temple lies in…
Temple of Mercury, Puy de Dôme
The Temple of Mercury at Puy de Dôme is a Gallo-Roman trachyte temple built in the 2nd century at the summit of the lava dome. It replaced a 1st-century arkose temple on the same…
Thermes de Cluny
The Thermes de Cluny are the ruins of Gallo-Roman thermal baths lying in the heart of Paris' 5th arrondissement, and which are partly subsumed into the Musée National du Moyen Âge…
Tivulaghju
Tivulaghju is a megalithic site in the commune of Porto-Vecchio, Corsica, first excavated in 1960 by Roger Grosjean and Jean Liegeois. The site contains megalithic cists…
Tombeau de Merlin
The Tombeau de Merlin is a megalithic monument dating from the Neolithic period located in the Forest of Paimpont, at a place called La Marette near the hamlet of Landelles in…
Tour des Mourgues
The Tour des Mourgues is a cylindrical stone tower in Arles, France, originally standing six metres tall as part of the ancient Roman colony's rampart system. Built in the 1st…
Tropaeum Alpium
The Tropaeum Alpium (Trophy of the Alps) is a Roman victory monument in La Turbie, France, built around 6 BC to celebrate Emperor Augustus's conquest of 45 Alpine tribes during…
Uxellodunum
Uxellodunum is an Iron Age hill fort, or oppidum, located above the river Dordogne near the modern-day French village of Vayrac in the Lot department. This stronghold lay within…
Vallée des Merveilles
The Vallée des Merveilles, also known in Italian as the Valle delle Meraviglie, is a part of the Mercantour National Park in southern France. It holds the largest quantity of…
Vasculaghju
Vasculaghju (also Vasculacciu) is a Neolithic burial and settlement site in the commune of Sotta, southern Corsica, dating from approximately 8800-2000 BC. The site is significant…
Vestiges of the Gallo-Roman Wall, Grenoble
The Vestiges of the Gallo-Roman wall are the remains of a fortification, constructed in Grenoble, France (formerly called Cularo) at the end of the 3rd century, under the reign of…
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