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Saturday, 10.03.2001 - Tarnaiae, Wallis

From the presumably in the year 260 AD by the Alemannians destroyed place today only still few remains are visible.

TombstoneTo the right next to the door a tombstone was build in into the exterior wall of the church.

During the conversion of the forecourt of the churchFoundation walls of the thermal springs came 1953/54 the public thermal springs to light. These have three rooms: caldarium, frigidarium and apodyterium with palaestra. In the latter one a mosaic was discovered.

This mosaic became preserved in a corner room of the Mosaicrestaurant "Le Caveau Romain", obviously at the precise place of finding. At a wall in this room is a showcase with photographs about the excavations and few find objects (for example kitchenware). Also two stakes of the roman stone bridge are in that. These were found with limestone blocks in 1976 at the right Rohne bank. Formerly counter forts of this bridge were filled in already at the left Rhone bank.
The restaurant is obvious not anymore in operation. The mosaic can be looked however through two panes of glass.

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