Many treasures are well hidden on the hill Fourvière… Its Gallo-Roman museum, built in the 1970s on the hillside houses the many ancient artifacts gathered over the years as they were discovered. The museum’s framework, a sort of immense flying buttress, protects a vast reinforced concrete cathedral, left with its exposed concrete finish.
A helical ramp, a true spiral of time, draws us into the depths of the past. Here we are, archaeologists setting out to discover, layer by layer, the richness and profusion of objects bequeathed by our ancestors. Among the highlights are the sarcophagus of Bacchus’s triumph, the statue of Neptune, the outstanding mosaic of the circus not to mention the pride of the museum: the Claudian Table.
Let’s not waste a minute—let’s set out to discover how the inhabitants of the capital of the 3 Gauls, named Lugdunum, lived.
