With its Gothic spire rising against a backdrop of Morvan hills, AUTUN , even today, is scarcely bigger than the circumference of its medieval walls , and they in turn follow the line of earlier Roman fortifications. The emperor Augustus founded the town in about 10 BC as part of a massive and, in the long term, highly successful campaign to pacify and Romanize the brooding Celts of defeated Vercingétorix. Augustodunum, as it was called, was designed to eclip... [More]