🏛️ Lemincum-Ad Publicanos
Roman settlement and customs station in the Alps
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in the Hautes-Alpes department, southeastern France, near the Lautaret Pass
- Served as a Roman customs post (statio) controlling trade routes through the Alps
- Occupied from the 1st to 3rd centuries CE
- Remains consist of archaeological foundations and scattered artifacts, accessible via the Col du Lautaret area
Lemincum-Ad Publicanos was a strategically positioned Roman settlement functioning as a customs and tax collection station along a major Alpine trade corridor. The site lies at approximately 2,100 meters elevation in the southern French Alps, controlling traffic between the Rhône valley and the Po valley in Italy. Archaeological evidence indicates occupation during the early Imperial period, with the settlement serving both administrative and commercial functions ...