Archaeological Sites in Switzerland
City/town/settlement in Switzerland (18)
Augusta Raurica
Augusta Raurica is a Roman archaeological site and open-air museum on the Rhine's south bank, 20 km east of Basel near Augst and Kaiseraugst. It is the oldest known Roman colony…
Aventicum
Capital of Roman Helvetia (Switzerland), founded in the early 1st century AD as the administrative center of the conquered Helvetii territory. Emperor Vespasian, who grew up in…
Busskirch
Busskirch is a village within Rapperswil-Jona on the northern shore of the Obersee in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. From the 1st century AD it served as a Roman lakeside…
Centum Prata
Centum Prata is a Roman vicus founded around 50 AD on the eastern shore of Lake Zurich in Kempraten, municipality of Rapperswil-Jona, canton of St. Gallen. It is the most…
Horgen
Horgen is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, situated on the south bank of the Lake of Zürich. It is the type-site for Switzerland's…
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…
La Tène - Archaeological Site
La Tène is a protohistoric archaeological site on the northern shore of Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, serving as the type site for the La Tène culture that dominated the European…
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
Martigny, at 471m elevation in the Swiss Alps, was a major Celtic settlement and later Roman city of the Veragri tribe. Known as Octodurus in the 1st century BC, it served as a…
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 (Colonia Iulia Equestris) was a Roman settlement in present-day Nyon, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
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, dating to c. 150-50 BC. Archaeological campaigns in 1989, 1997,…
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
Sechselautenplatz is the largest town square in Zurich, Switzerland, where prehistoric pile dwellings dating to 3234-2727 BC were discovered in 2009 during construction of an…
Turicum
Turicum was a Gallo-Roman settlement at the lower end of Lake Zurich, serving as the precursor to modern Zürich. Located within the Roman province of Germania Superior near the…
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…
Vitudurum
Vitudurum was a Roman vicus whose remains are located in Oberwinterthur, a locality of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland.
Fortress/citadel in Switzerland (2)
Basel-Münsterhügel
Basel-Munsterhugel is the site of a late La Tene Iron Age oppidum in the Swiss city of Basel, built by the Gaulish Rauraci tribe. The Celts constructed a murus gallicus (Gallic…
Irgenhausen Castrum
Late Roman square fort (c. 61 m per side) overlooking Pfäffikersee in the canton of Zürich, built in the 4th century over the ruins of a 1st-century villa rustica destroyed during…
Cave Structures in Switzerland (1)
Gate/archway/bridge in Switzerland (1)
Necropolis/tombs complex in Switzerland (1)
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