Augusta Raurica

Augusta Raurica: The Roman City That Still Lives by the Rhine Just ten kilometers east of Basel lies one of the most evocative Roman sites north of the Alps. Augusta Raurica, once a thriving colony of the Roman Empire, stretches today across the Swiss municipalities of Augst and Kaiseraugst. What survives is not just a scattering of ruins but the skeleton of a real Roman city: streets, workshops, temples, theaters and the footprint of a...