Situated in the territory of the Gallic Lemovices people, along a proto-historic route linking Brittany to the Mediterranean, the Tintignac-Naves site is a major site for understanding the Gauls and their interaction with the Roman world.
Local Gallic elites, probably to please the new imperial powers, quickly destroyed the ancient Gallic sanctuary, dating from the 2nd century BC, to make way for the Gallo-Roman fanum.
The fanum features a number of large, luxurious public buildings with a religious function, but lacks the population concentration to qualify it as a “city”.
But today, Tintignac is far from having revealed all its secrets.
- the remains of the fanum, the Gallo-Roman temple,
- a reconstruction of the famous boar carnyx by J. Boisserie, and a reproduction of the bird helmet,
- Patrick Ernaux's photo exhibition on the Gallic deposit at Tintignac,
- a model of the site at its height in the 3rd century AD,
- a Cité des Sciences cinescene depicting Gaulish votive rites within the Tintignac sanctuary,
- an exhibition of marble, porphyry, funerary urns and a section of aqueduct found at Tintignac-Naves,
- the visible remains of the theater, restored in 2016,
- an augmented reality virtual tour on tablet, available since 2016.
In June 2022, a “Maison du Patrimoine” was inaugurated to house and present the main restored objects on display at the musée Jacques Chirac in Sarran (carnyx, helmet, etc.). The house is also intended to enable researchers and archaeologists to study the site's many finds, stored in the reserves.
A planned extension to the exhibition room will enable visitors to discover even more objects from Tintignac, as the “arènes de Tintignac” site is not limited to the remarkable discovery of 2004.
Digital, fun and historical tours of the site are also available.
Les Arènes de Tintignac
Lieu-dit Tintignac
19460 Naves
Tel.: 05.55.93.64.39 - 05.55.26.21.70
tintignac.association@gmail.com
https://tintignac.wixsite.com/tintignac-naves
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