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Come with us on a walking tour of Nyon...
8. place du Marché
The covered market
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| Blue: first phase of construction, Red: second phase of construction, White: Roman road network | |
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The text in English reads: The covered market - The present Place du Marché disclosed the remains of a food market constructed in about 50 AD. This building comprised several shops disposed on either side of a central paved courtyard, as well as a small apse probably embellished with a statue. It is one of the rare examples of a macellum built by the Romans north of the Alps. This building mainly ensured the supply of meat, poultry and fish. The beef ribs and shoulder bones discovered piled in a corner of one of the shops suggest, more vividly still, the actions of the butcher and the eating habits of the citizens of this Roman city Move your mouse over the drawing of the macellum to see today's place du Marché. On Wednesday and Saturday mornings, this square is crowded with market stalls and shoppers, as the photos below show. |
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On
market days, the square is full of people selling sausage, bread,
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mushrooms
and olives,
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fruits,
vegetables and spices
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Read (in French) about the archaeological investigations of the market carried out by Archéodunum S.A. Use Babelfish.com to translate a web page from French to English. http://babelfish.altavista.com |
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This page was updated on 24 April, 2004 by K. Epps
Unless
otherwise mentioned, all photos are by Katharine Epps.
Sauf mention contraire les photos sont de Katharine Epps
nyon@isg-online.org