Dr Ryan is always so poetic

The overcast and the muddled tones fit the obscurity of these meager Roman survivals in The City of Light, La Ville de la Lumiere.

All I know about Lutetia is from Asterix the Gaul comic books

Thank you for this tour of remnants of ancient Lutetia.

Thanks for the great content!

Another gem. Thank you!

We have been there two days ago, it was very impressive. And then the next morning we visited the arena, it was indeed a wonderful remarkable place, so peaceful and tranquil....Paris invites you to discover its hidden treasures. Thanks a lot for the video

Sainte Geneviève is the patron saint of Paris in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. In 451 she led a "prayer marathon" said to have saved Paris, diverting Attila's Huns away from the city.

Great video. Thanks for posting.

Nice video. One small correction : the Panthéon in Paris is not modeled after the Roman one and isn't build over the tombe of Ste Geneviève. Her tomb was in the former St Peters church behind the Panthéon .

Thank you for taking us places (time and space) we would not be able to visit otherwise.

Looks like I'm going to travel to Paris again.

The Romans were everywhere. What a great civilization.

Told in stone. Good work.

Lovely narration! Thanks for making and sharing. 👍

I really do enjoy these types of videos. I am certain that many European cities could benefit from your gaze!

Thanks!

I walked in this ancient theatre. A masterpiece of conseration. Not just old stones (dont touch!). A place to live. Kids playing football, students sitting on the stairs and reading, man playing boule. And surrouded by big old trees. IMHO the most impressive place in paris - and 99% tourists free. From the streets you will not see it, if you dont know.

great video! thanks!

I'm going to make a note of these Roman relics and visit the next time I travel to Europe. Thanks for this information.

This isw onderful! Thanks for the great content!

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fascinating

Very interesting

Thank you very well done, liked and subscribed. You should have done some inside shots of the frigidarium of the thermes de Cluny it is really impressive. There is also the remains of a theatre in a another park opposite the amphitheatre, although much less extant it is still impressive. In the older houses in the streets leading down to place Jussieu from les arénes de Lutèce, there are a lot of recuperated stone used for the facades, some with latin inscriptions. The amphitheatre is of a type found elsewhere in Northern Gaulle, like the similarly sized extant amphitheatre at Lillebonne in Normandy. Both having two large gates that make it seem that they were used for processions. Finally in the Paris area there the remains of a substantial 'chunky' aqueduct at Arcueil just South of Paris, with lots of extant subterranean sections nearby.

I am fascinated by the Pillar of the Boatmen found in Paris, mixing Roman and Gaul deities - I often wonder if what Cesar descibes wasn't actually Nanterre, as proposed by some archaeologists. It's not far from downtown Paris, (actually a bend in the river that makes an almost-island, right before Paris if you're sailing from the coast) and all the wonderful Gaulish material that was found there in recent excavations.

Surprised you missed the surviving section of the Roman wall.

Was there ever an arena here?

By all means, grab a take-out lunch from a charcuterie, boulangerie & a fruit stall as you head up the hill to Arène de Lutece. Best place in Paris for a quiet, shady al fresco as you watch the kids play boules.

And now I know how Paris got its name.

Is roman origin sem trabel from ilirian

Pretty sure the ToldInStone guy ripped you off. His tone and cadence is just like yours, ans he even talks about history stuff too! You should probably sue him for all his tenured worth.

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