Switzerland

Augusta Raurica

A city spread between Augst and Kaiseraugst East of Basel, Augusta Raurica occupies more than a single enclosure of ruins. Across Augst and Kaiseraugst, streets, public buildings, workshops and the later Rhine fortress preserve different parts of a Roman urban world. The pleasure of the site lies in moving between them. A theatre gives the city an immediately recognisable scale, but a house, a drain or an object recovered from rubbish can reveal just as…...