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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 7752289, member: 84905&quot;]Last weekend we went for a little hiking tour to a small picturest town called Avenches, which is about 2 hours from where I live.</p><p>Avenches was the antique Aventicum, a Roman town of which the arena, the theater and some remainders of a temple are still standing so is a very impressive wall, towers and gates. The town flourished in the 1st and 2nd centuries and declined rapidly in the course of the 3rd century. By the end of the 3rd century the public buildings had fallen out of use. The arena was used as retreat in the case of Germanic attacks and many buildings had been dismanteled to fortify the protective walls. Some years ago a gilded bust of Marcus Aurelius was found in the ancient sewers, where it had been hidden during times of unrest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, Aventicum was home to some Roman prominence. For example, the Otacilli family, of which Marcia Otacilia was a member, was from Aventicum. More importantly, Aventicum was the ancestral home of the Flavian dynasty. Vespasian&#039;s father was a rich banker in Aventicum and his son Titus spent parts of his childhood in Aventicum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some pictures of modern Avenches:</p><p><a href="https://reiseziele.ch/von-aventicum-nach-avenches/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://reiseziele.ch/von-aventicum-nach-avenches/" rel="nofollow">Von Aventicum nach Avenches › reiseziele.ch</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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