The Roman Roads of Languedoc

A visit during the Heritage Day in September 2012

That wall at the back is original Roman.

  The site is to the south of Gruissan, take the D232 which runs beside the étang.  Take the small road on the right between Penelle and la Clotte.  (It's all on the IGN 2546OT map.)
  In Roman times, the étang was not closed off by the sandbank as it is today. 

  This map explains it.
This small port, as rich as a small village, enjoyed a position directly beside the sea, on the island at the end of La Clape.
 
  They had one of the thermal baths that the Romans loved so much, for the harbour-masters to wash off the dust of the day's work.  Several buildings here were dated from the first century BC to the 5th century AD.  Maybe St.Martin was then abandoned because the Visigoths didn't have the man-power to work it.
 
and what is this?  Toilets!  And underground water-courses.
 
Below; under the hedge a floor of opus spicatum was found.

  All the world loves St. Martin, we can imagine that we lived there before . . .