On Wednesday afternoon, Papa and I went to the Archaeological Museum of Lectoure. We enjoyed the museum’s permanent collection plus a visiting exhibition, La Villa de Seviac. The Seviac exhibition included objects from the luxurious Gallo-Roman villa, built in the 4th century on an older villa. With a surface of 6500m2, it is considered one of the largest residences in the Gaul, and is distinguished by its mosaics and vast thermal baths. We enjoyed the museum!
“One of the oldest museums in France and identified as such since the sixteenth century, Lectoure’s Archaeology Museum is housed in the vaulted cellars of the Town Hall, a former Bishop’s Palace. Exhibiting collections of Gallo-Roman archaeological finds discovered on the site of the ancient city or its surrounds, it is above all known for a collection of sacred altars called tauroboliques which date from the second and third century A.D.
Objects and documents from the Gallic and medieval periods make up the rest of the exhibit alongside a depiction of the lives of two famous Lectoure natives, the Maréchal d’Empire Lannes et l’Amiral Boué de Lapeyrère.”
