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A basilica and a museum
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It was Julius Caesar’s doing
Nyon’s history begins about 45 B.C.: under the centre of the modern town lie the remains of Noviodunum, one of the most important Roman towns in Switzerland. It was the urban centre of Colonia Iulia Equestris, founded in Julius Caesar’s lifetime.
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The walls of a basilica – an ancient setting for the museum
Nyon’s Roman Museum has been constructed below ground level, actually in the foundations of the basilica of the forum of Noviodunum, an administrative building of the first century A.D.
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A modern museuml
The museum was created in 1979, enlarged in 1993 and renovated in 2009. Its collections are constantly enriched by new discoveries thanks to intensive archaeological research. In 1996, an amphitheatre was uncovered.
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Life in Noviodunum
The well-endowed collection of objects in the exhibition containing the finds of scores of years in Nyon itself and on the Roman sites in its environs, reveals how people lived on the shores of Lake Geneva two thousand years ago.
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Permanently on view in the museum
- Day-to-day
artefacts: amphoras, lamps, ceramics, glass jars, coins and
jewellery.
- Imposing
remains: decorated blocks for building, sculptures and inscriptions.
- The
art of the painters of the Commugny villa: reconstruction of
the decoration of a house, original fragments of wall paintings
of exceptionally high quality.
- Models: centre
of the Roman town, the building of the basilica, reconstructions
of ancient hoists.
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Use the QuickTime VR 1 technology to stroll through the museum !
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