Roman Roads - Narbonne

Yesterday we went to Narbonne, mainly to see the Roman Road and the Cathedral.

This section of the Via Domitia is in Narbonne, where it runs under the newer city streets - you can see the short piece uncovered here in front of the Archbishop's palace

Mom walking on the Roman Road

The route

Archbishop's palace - and now Town Hall

Passage between old and new sections

 We walked up the passage, and turned into the new side (still pretty old :-) )

Then we went back out, and to the end of the passage. We didn't realize until later that this was an entrance to the Cathedral of Saints Just and Pasteur 🙄

More meandering led us to the church

We left from another door, and when we got our bearings, discovered that we were at the doorstep of the restaurant I had scoped out for our lunch!

Taberna le Café des Arcades was simply wonderful! Mom and I shared tapas, Dad had a sandwich, and Rick had a lunch plate. Definitely on my list of places to return to!

As this was intended to be a short day, we decided against more sites, except for the Cathedral. LOL - that was when we finally realized that we had already seen most of it! We relaxed a while in the garden before heading home.

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You can read about the construction of Roman roads here:
http://www.battleoffulford.org.uk/ev_roman_rd_constrct.htm