Gisacum
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Gisacum, or Le Vieil-Évreux ("Old Évreux), was a Gallo-Roman religious sanctuary, near the settlement of Mediolanum Aulercorum (Évreux), in the territory of the Eburovices[1] in northern Gaul (now Normandy). In the first century CE a vast sanctuary was laid out, about six km southeast of Mediolanum Aulercorum, on an all-but-unique plan: monumental public structures isolated at the center were surrounded by a vast empty space, with the urban habitations around a hexagonal periphery, 5.6 km in circumference, enclosing an area of some 250 hectares.
Gisacum has been excavated with increasing care since the early nineteenth century. The recent campaigns began in 1996.
