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| GENERAL INFORMATION | 
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| ARCHITECTURE | 
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| A picture of the Vienne city wall |
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GENERAL INFORMATION
The Vienne City Wall surrounds the hills on the left bank of the Rhône : Mount Salomon, Mount Arnaud, le mont Arnaud, les collines de Sainte-Blandine the Sainte-Blandine Hills and the Saint-Just Hills. It runs down to the Rhône both on the north and south. It can still be easily seen in certain places, particularly on Mount Salomon. It encircled the political and administrative heart of the city : the forum, the theatre, and the Odeum. The tops of the hills, where only a few buildings have been found, were perhaps, as was often the case in Rome, occupied by gardens; at least two sanctuaries stood on the Sainte-Blandine Hill. A great part of the residential and commercial districts were situated outside the walls, to the south and on the right bank. There we find very large buildings which needed vast areas of flat ground such as the Circus, the warehouses, and the bath complex of the "Mirror Palace".