🏛️ Valentia-Monte Seleuco
Roman settlement ruins in the Drôme valley
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in Drôme department, southeastern France, near Montélimar
- Occupied from the 1st to 3rd centuries CE during the Roman Imperial period
- Hillside settlement with domestic structures, workshops, and evidence of agricultural activity
- Accessible via hiking trails; minimal visitor infrastructure
Valentia-Monte Seleuco is a partially excavated Roman settlement situated on a hillside in the Drôme valley of southeastern France. The site spans multiple periods of occupation during the early Imperial era, revealing patterns of rural settlement, craft production, and land use in Roman Gaul. Archaeological work has identified building foundations, pottery kilns, and domestic refuse that illuminate daily life in a non-urban Roman context ...