Archaeological Sites in Switzerland
City/town/settlement in Switzerland (17)
Aquae Helveticae
Aquae Helveticae was a vicus and mineral spa established in the 1st century AD near the Roman legion camp of Vindonissa. The hot springs, located at a bend in the Limmat river…
Augusta Raurica
Augusta Raurica is a Roman archaeological site and an open-air museum in Switzerland located on the south bank of the Rhine river about 20 km east of Basel near the villages of…
Aventicum
Aventicum was the largest town and capital of Roman Switzerland (Helvetia or Civitas Helvetiorum). Its remains are beside the modern town of Avenches. Under the rule of Emperor…
Busskirch
Beginning in the 1st century A.D., Busskirch was a Roman lakeside settlement that served as a stage town on the intersection of the streets to Kempraten respectively Zürich,…
Centum Prata
Centum Prata is the name of a Roman vicus on the eastern shore of Lake Zurich, whose remains are located in Kempraten in the municipality Rapperswil-Jona, canton of St. Gallen.…
Horgen
The oldest vestiges discovered to date come from the coastal station of Horgen-Dampfschiffsteg/Bootshabe. They were discovered during dredging of the channel in 1950, 1961 and…
Kempraten
Kempraten-Lenggis is a village within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The remains of the Gallo-Roman settlement Centum Prata, located…
Lousonna
Lousonna was a Gallo-Roman vicus on the shores of Lake Geneva, preceding modern Lausanne. The port town of around 2,000 inhabitants served as a commercial hub with trade links to…
Martigny
The Gaulish name of the settlement in the 1st century BC was either Octodurus or Octodurum (whence Martigny is sometimes also called Octodure in French), an oppidum or vicus of…
Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel is a town and municipality on Lake Neuchâtel, and the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. The German name Neuenburg reflects the same etymology; both the French…
Noviodunum, Switzerland
Noviodunum or Colonia Iulia Equestris was a Roman era settlement in what is now Nyon in the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Colonia Iulia Equestris was most likely founded by…
Oppidum Uetliberg
Oppidum Uetliberg was a La Tene era Celtic fortification near the summit of Uetliberg hill in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, dating to the 5th century BC (late Hallstatt/early…
Oppidum Zürich-Lindenhof
A fortified Celtic oppidum founded by the Helvetii tribe on a moraine hill overlooking the Limmat river in Zurich. Archaeological campaigns in 1989, 1997, 2004 and 2007 uncovered…
Petinesca
Petinesca is an archaeological site at Jensberg hill in Studen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, spanning over five centuries of Celtic and Roman occupation. It began as a Celtic…
Sechseläutenplatz, Zürich
Sechseläutenplatz is located on the east shore of Lake Zurich, just south of the lake's outflow to the river Limmat and the Schanzengraben moat. The area has been internationally…
Turicum
Turicum was a Gallo-Roman settlement at the lower end of Lake Zurich, and precursor of the city of Zurich. The core of the Helvetic and Roman settlement was the Lindenhof hill in…
Vitudurum
Vitudurum was a Roman vicus, whose remains are located in Oberwinterthur, a locality of the municipality of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Vitudurum was…
Fortress/citadel in Switzerland (2)
Irgenhausen Castrum
Irgenhausen Castrum is a Roman fort at Irgenhausen, situated on Pfäffikersee lake shore in Switzerland. It was a square fort, measuring 60 metres in square. The castrum is…
Vindonissa
The only Roman legionary fortress of the 1st century AD in Switzerland, located at modern Windisch at the confluence of the Aare and Reuss rivers. Established as a military post…
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