Roman Theatre of Augustodunum

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The Roman theatre of Autun is a monument of performances built in the second half of the first century in Augustodunum, a city founded shortly before the beginning of our era and one of the few of northern Gauls to own a enclosure from the Upper Empire; This town later became Autun. This theatre was with its 148 meters in diameter and its capacity of 14,000 people, the second largest of all Gaul, as far as research makes it possible to say. Abandoned in the Middle Ages, he was studied in the 19th and 20th centuries and, as early as 1909, he was restored to his first vocation because shows were organized there. It is part of the first list of historical monuments protected in 1840, along with two other ancient monuments in Autun, the Couhard pyramid and the Janus temple.