Roman baths of Alauna

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The ancient baths of Alauna constitute a Gallo-Roman thermal complex located in the French commune of Valognes in the north of the Manche. To the north of the ancient agglomeration of Alauna covered in the 21st century by pastures and hedges of the Norman bocage, the thermal baths are located close to a road assimilated to the maximus cardo. Probably built in the second half of the first century, they were disused two centuries later.

Their masonries were recovered until the modern era, but the site was partially reinvested in the late Middle Ages. The symmetrical architecture of the complex, with identical rooms on both sides of an axis, makes the Alauna thermal baths fit into the category of symmetrical plane baths in the image of the Nero thermal baths, although they are of modest size (1 225 m2). Their remains, still partially rising over a dozen meters high, have remained present in the landscape since Antiquity, but it is only at the end of the seventeenth century that they are formally identified as the ruins of an ancient thermal establishment.

His plan could be completely restored after full searches at the beginning...