06 May, 2010

The remains of a roman temple discovered near the railway station


The remains of a former temple dedicated to a roman divinity Mithra has been discovered during the first works of the building of a future parking lots and 180 flats on the area of the Saint-Louis clinic near the railway station. The archeologists think that the temple was built during the IIIrd century after JC.
If the form of the temple is still visible, its walls were totally destroyed. The stones will be removed but the archelogist want to record the site and, may be, take a cast of it. It will be possible to show it later in a museum.
This temple is probably the testimony of a former roman district of the city divided by two ways edged by homes. A memorial stone will may be remember the existence of the temple of Mithra, a cult brought roman soldiers from the middle east.

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