first four centuries of the Christian era. The "Claudius Tablet" in the Museum transcribes a speech given before the Senate by the Emperor Claudius in 48, in which he requests the right for the heads of the Gallic nations to participate in Roman magistracy. The request having been accepted, the Gauls decided to engrave the imperial speech on bronze. In Metz, once an important town of Gaul, the Golden Courtyard Museums displays a rich collection of Gallo-Roman finds and the vestiges of Gallo-Roman baths, revealed by the extension works to the museums in the 1930s. In Martigny, Valais, Switzerland, at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda, a modern museum of art and sculpture shares space with Gallo-Roman Museum centered on the foundations of a Celtic temple. Other sites include: Towns Arles – remains include the Alyscamps, a large Roman necropolis Autun Divodurum (modern Metz) – remains include the Basilica of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains and the thermae Glanum, near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Jublains archeological site Narbonne Nîmes – remains include the Maison Carrée Orange Tongeren (Belgium) – Gallo-Roman Museum of Tongeren Vaison-la-Romaine Velzeke-Ruddershove (Belgium) – Provincial Archaeological Museum of Velzeke Amphitheatres Arelate (modern Arles) Grand Lugdunum (modern Lyon) Nemausus (modern Nîmes) Lutetia (modern Paris): Arènes de Lutèce Mediolanum Santonum (modern Saintes) several Roman amphitheatres are still visible in France (see List of Roman amphitheatres for a list) Aqueducts Pont du Gard Barbegal aqueduct See also Culture of Ancient Rome Sidonius Apollinaris Syagrius Via Domitia, the first Roman road built in Gaul Pillar of the Boatmen Thraco-Roman Loupian Roman villa Gallo language Ausonius Venantius Fortunatus Hilary of Arles Roman villas in northwestern Gaul Romano-British culture Romano-Germanic culture Daco-Roman Illyro-Roman Notes Bibliography Wallace-Hadrill, J.M. 1983. The Frankish Church (Oxford University Press) , 1983 Drinkwater, John, and Hugh Elton, eds. Fifth-Century Gaul: a crisis of identity? (Cambridge University Press) 2002. Omrani, Bijan. Caesar's Footprints: Journeys to Roman Gaul (Head of Zeus) 2017. External links Gallo-Roman Museum, Lyon Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum by Jean Nouvel Gallo-Roman Museum Tongeren – Belgium 7th-century disestablishments in Europe Ancient Roman culture Roman assimilation