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The great monuments of Lutetia. First urban project of Paris. Archaeological crypt of the parvis of Notre-Dame.
BOUET Alain, SARAGOZA Florence, BUSSON Didier (dir.).

The great monuments of Lutetia. First urban project of Paris. Archaeological crypt of the parvis of Notre-Dame.

Paris Museums
€70,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 30743
Format 21 X 27
Détails 112 p., number of black and white and color ill. including a map, paperback.
Publication Paris, 2009
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782759600625
From the 70s AD, nearly a century after the Roman foundation of the city, architects and engineers built the great monuments of Lutetia. These buildings—forum, baths, theater, and amphitheater—gave it a structured and functional organization. They made it possible to meet all the requirements of public, religious, and administrative life. Their magnificence also demonstrated the Lutetians' taste for the amenities and entertainment offered by Roman life. Of this architectural splendor, which unfolded like a backdrop from the banks of the Seine to the summit of the Sainte-Geneviève mountain, two monuments have survived: the Cluny baths and the arenas of Lutetia. The history of Lutetia's monuments reflects the assimilation of a model of urban life inherited from Roman culture and recalls what today's capital owes to its very first urbanization.
From the 70s AD, nearly a century after the Roman foundation of the city, architects and engineers built the great monuments of Lutetia. These buildings—forum, baths, theater, and amphitheater—gave it a structured and functional organization. They made it possible to meet all the requirements of public, religious, and administrative life. Their magnificence also demonstrated the Lutetians' taste for the amenities and entertainment offered by Roman life. Of this architectural splendor, which unfolded like a backdrop from the banks of the Seine to the summit of the Sainte-Geneviève mountain, two monuments have survived: the Cluny baths and the arenas of Lutetia. The history of Lutetia's monuments reflects the assimilation of a model of urban life inherited from Roman culture and recalls what today's capital owes to its very first urbanization.