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  1. 1Housesteads Roman FortHousesteads Roman FortThe fort that makes Hadrian's Wall make sense. Housesteads sits on a ridge in Northumberland with the Wall running off in both directions, and inside its walls you can trace every main building a Roman fort needed: the headquarters, the commander's house, two complete barrack blocks, granaries…0
  2. 2VindolandaVindolandaWhere the frontier gets names and voices. Vindolanda, just south of Hadrian's Wall, is famous for the thin wooden writing tablets preserved in its waterlogged ground: letters, lists and requests written by the soldiers, officers and families who lived here. Most of the originals are in the British…0
  3. 3Roman Baths (Bath)Roman Baths (Bath)The one Roman bath complex where the water still steams. Hot spring water at about 46°C (115°F) rises here at more than a million liters a day, and it still flows through the Roman system into the Great Bath, a green pool open to the sky and lined with lead. Below street level the museum walks you…0
  4. 4Fishbourne Roman PalaceFishbourne Roman PalaceProof that Roman luxury reached the south coast of England early. Fishbourne, near Chichester, is the largest known Roman residential palace north of the Alps, and it holds the largest collection of mosaics still in their original place anywhere in the UK. The star is the Cupid on a Dolphin floor,…0
  5. 5Pont du GardPont du GardThe image of Roman engineering for good reason. This three-tier aqueduct bridge over the Gardon was built in the first century AD to carry water more than 50 km to Nîmes, on a channel that falls only gently along the whole route, and it still stands close to 50 meters tall. Seeing it from the…0
  6. 6Arena of NîmesArena of NîmesAn amphitheater you experience the way Romans did, from the top tier down. Built around 100 AD, only about twenty years after the Colosseum, Nîmes keeps its full oval of two-story arcades, and it still fills for concerts and the bullfights of the Feria de Nîmes, so the stairways and vaulted…0
  7. 7Arles AmphitheatreArles AmphitheatreThe amphitheater is the way in, but Arles rewards a full day of Roman layers. The arena, which seated about 20,000, was turned into a fortified village with houses and chapels after Rome fell, a reuse you can still read in its towers. From there, walk the cryptoporticus, the vaulted galleries that…0
  8. 8Roman Theatre of OrangeRoman Theatre of OrangeThe best place in the former empire to see what a Roman theater's stage wall looked like. At Orange it survives at full height, about 103 meters long and 37 meters tall, and a statue about 3.5 meters tall, restored in modern times, still stands in the central niche looking down on the seats. Most…0
  9. 9Porta NigraPorta NigraThe best-preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps, and the anchor of the best Roman city in Germany. Trier's Porta Nigra was built from huge gray sandstone blocks after 170 AD, and it survived because a Greek monk, Simeon, lived in it as a hermit from 1028, and after his death the gate was…0
  10. 10CarnuntumCarnuntumThe answer for anyone tired of imagining walls from knee-high foundations. On the Danube between Vienna and Bratislava, Carnuntum has rebuilt a Roman town quarter on its excavated foundations, using archaeological evidence and ancient building techniques down to roof tiles fired in a reconstructed…0