"Orange If the evocation of Gigondas, Châteauneuf-of-Pope or Beaumes of Venice attracts you irresistibly, Orange is the dreamed destination. Large producer of these wines, thanks to his sunny climate (300 days of sun per annum), the Orange country shelters fields which compete of reputation. Directory of the vine growers You can combine plaisi gustatory pleasure and culture… The ancient Orange city seems to make close-cropped table of all the former occupations. Nothing predisposed with the creation of a city in this point of the plain in the north of the hill. Winds, marshes, floods constituted a hostile environment there. One thus needed a tough will of the Roman State to carry out an urban project of a rare monumentality. The ancient city is organized around an altered religious sanctuary on several occasions, dedicated to the emperor. Its monumental architecture is instrumentalisée in a setting in imposing scene with the service of the imperial ideology. Thus, the citizen or the visitor could not escape this impressive vision which guided obligatorily its glance, as of the accesses from the arc, towards a prospect learnedly elaborate where, staged until the top of the hill, monuments, temples and gantries answered themselves. Indeed, the Roman way, via Clutched it, coming from Lugdunum, changed after the passage of the arc into penetrating rectilinear, which, north in the south, spun right in direction of the Saint-Eutrope hill, crossed the doors of the rampart, skirted the western side of the forum and ended in the religious sanctuary. This monumentality is marked as of the accesses of the city by a triumphal arch dedicated to the glory of the founders of the city: veterans of the iie Gallica, then Re-dedicated in the honor of the Tibère emperor. In addition to its honorary function, it symbolically marks separation between the world of alive and the world of deaths; indeed, on both sides of the way of Clutched, extended from the necropoles whose burials and vestiges of two mausoleums discovered in 1995, with the district of Fork-Old women, show the extent, the density and the richness. The Orange arc, set up in the north of the city to approximately 70 meters in the north of the ramparts, is a rather massive building with three bays whose decoration evokes the absolute power of Rome. On its faces north and south, Celtic weapons of the period of independence appear as hung in range on a wall; on its sides east and west, the Celts are represented connected. Weapons and prisoners seem eternal trophies carved in the stone pointing out the permanence of the domination that triumphing Rome exerts on the people of the area. To this decoration that of naval skins is added where prows, oars, anchors and aplustres, under the benevolent eye of sirens and marine monsters, mix in an erudite disorder, recalling the control on the maritime world that the victory of Actium gave in Rome. Lastly, on the higher attic, in a narrow fray, clash riding and infantrymen, pointing out the old topic pergaménien which oppose Greek and Galates which, here, became Romans and Celts. The Orange theatre owes its reputation with its exceptional conservation. It presents all the components of the Latin theatre according to Vitruve: the cavea (steps in hemicycle), accesses side and the wall of scene flanked of parascaenia. Conceived to accomodate the Gallo-Roman public, it is by this place which the diffusion of the culture and the Roman language passed. 9000 spectators could attend tragedies, comedies but also with spectacles of dance, acrobatics and juggling. Forgotten in IVème century, it is transformed thereafter into district of dwelling.