Autun

Autun is a commune in the Saone et Loire department, France. Located within the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte place, it became based at some point of the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by way of Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to present a Roman capital to the Gallic people Aedui, who had Bibracte as their political centre. In Roman times the city can also have been home to 30,000 to one hundred,000 human beings, in step with exclusive estimates. Nowadays, Autun has a populace of about 15,000. Augustodunum was based in the course of the reign of the primary Roman emperor, Augustus, after whom it changed into named.

It was the civitas "tribal capital" of the Aedui, Continental Celts who have been allies and "brothers of Rome on the grounds that earlier than Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. The town boasts historic Roman gates Porte Saint Andre and Porte d'Arroux and different ruins courting to the time of Augustus. One of the most mind-blowing stays is that of the ancient theatre, which become certainly one of the largest inside the western a part of the empire with a 17,000 seat potential. To the northwest of the city is the so-called Temple of Janus, only walls of which stay.