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Roman quarry - La Turbie (1988)

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Surroundings:

Le trophée des Alpes à la Turbie

Trophée d'Auguste

La Turbie in the South of France

Milestone

Workshop or industry

Location:

France, La Turbie
geo:43.747746,7.410966
Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

-10 / unknown

Class:

Workshop or industry
visible

Identifiers:

vici:place=55804

Annotations

Roman limestone quarry whose stones were used notably for building the close Augustean trophy in today's village of la Turbie.

Protected as French historical monument since 1944.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carri%C3%A8re_romaine_du_Mont_Justicier

https://monumentum.fr/carriere-romaine-mont-justice-pa00080890.html

Relevant museums

Rome, Museo nazionale della civiltà romana

Rome, Museo nazionale della civiltà romana - Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography.

Nearby

La Turbe

Milestone

Tropaeum Alpium

Tropaeum Alpium

In Alpe Maritima

TROPAEUM AUGUSTI La Turbie: town in France, near Monaco, known for a monument dedicated to the emperor Augustus.