Beziers

Beziers is a metropolis in Languedoc in southern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the Herault branch. Beziers hosts the well-known Feria de Beziers, centred on bullfighting, each August. A million site visitors are drawn to the five-day occasion. Beziers is a member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network. Beziers is one of the oldest cities in France. Research published in March 2013 suggests that Béziers dates from 575 BC, making it older than Agde Greek Agathe Tyche, based in 525 BC and a piece younger than Marseille Greek Massalia, based in 600 BC.

Roman Betarra become on the road that connected Provence with Iberia. The Romans refounded the town as a new colonia for veterans in 36–35 BC and referred to as it Colonia Julia Baeterrae Septimanorum. Stones from the Roman amphitheatre were used to assemble the metropolis wall all through the 3rd century. White wine become exported to Rome. A dolia observed in an excavation near Rome is marked "I am a wine from Baeterrae and I am five years antique"; some other in reality "white wine of Baeterrae".

It changed into occupied by the Moors among 720 and 752. From the 10th to the twelfth century, Béziers changed into the centre of a Viscountship of Beziers. The viscounts ruled maximum of the coastal undeniable round Beziers, together with also the city of Agde. They also managed the major east-west direction thru Languedoc, which kind of follows the antique Roman Via Domitia, with the two key bridges over the Orb at Beziers and over the Herault at Saint-Thibery.