Arch of Campanus

The Arch of Campanus is an Ancient Roman funerary monument positioned within the commune of Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, and Rhone-Alps, France. Erected inside the 1st century AD, it has been classified as a French Monument historique due to the fact that 7 August 1890. The authentic Roman settlers at Aix-les-Bains seem to have arrived within the 1st centur resulting from the presence of hot springs .Linked administratively to the city of Vienne, the metropolis turned into a vicus with a council of decemlecti municipal council of ten contributors. The town possessed essential thermal, in the very centre of the city, beside which, on a lower terrace to the west, the funerary Arch of Campanus turned into built and under a 2d terrace on which a temple of Diana turned into built in the 2nd century.

The Arch of Campanus in an etching by Begonia in 1674.The arch changed into erected on the stop of the first century via Locus Pompous Campanus, a patrician of Gallia Narbonensis, a rich tremendous Allotrope from the city of Vienne.