🏛️ Lugdunum-Benearnum
Roman settlement ruins in southwestern France
📌 Fast Facts
- Located near Auch in the Gers department, Occitanie region
- Roman auxiliary settlement dating to the 1st–3rd centuries CE
- Situated at the convergence of the Pyrenean foothills and the Gascony plains
- Archaeological site with limited visitor infrastructure
Lugdunum-Benearnum was a Roman auxiliary settlement established in southwestern Gaul during the early Imperial period. The site occupies a strategic position in what is now the Gers department, near the modern town of Auch. Excavations have revealed material culture consistent with a frontier or garrison settlement, though the settlement's full extent and administrative role remain subjects of scholarly investigation ...