Vaison-la-Romaine

Yesterday, after driving up Mont Ventoux, we headed to nearby Vaison-la-Romaine.  The town has a population of about 6000, which is how many people lived there during the peak of Roman culture.  Their Roman theater seats 6000.

The town has lots of interesting antiquities: two excavated Roman sites in the lower part of town, a still functioning 2000-yr-old Roman bridge (which we drove across), and a medieval hilltop city.

Roman column at the theater

Mosaic (in the museum)

Roman statue in the museum

Roman art in the museum

The Roman bridge.  The base withstood flooding in 1992 that removed the modern upper structure.

Medieval hilltop city, just above the bridge