Tixier, Alain

Narbonne. At the biggest site of archaeological digs in France, a researchteam is bringing to light the forgotten potential of the city in the Romanera. From the 1st century B.C., the then-called Narbo Martius, first Romancolony in Gaul, became the capital of an immense province, Gallia Narbonensis.The port city ended up being the centre of exchanges betweenthe colonies of the Empire and becoming the equal of its source: Rome!Starting out from an exceptional find, this film reconstructs, thanks toinfographics and the help of passionate historians and archaeologists,the extraordinary story of this ancient metropolis that shone for morethan three centuries over the Mediterranean world.