Bust of Lucius Munatius Plancus.
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Bust of Lucius Munatius Plancus, founder of Lugdunum (Lyon) The bust has been said to show evidence of <a class="mw-redirect" title="Hemiplegia" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiplegia">hemiplegia</a>. Found in 1823 near the Jardin des Plantes and the amphitheatre of Lyon. On display at the&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" title="Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallo-Roman_Museum_of_Lyon">Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon</a>.
Detail map of Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France Overview map of Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

A: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Roman Senator & Consul Lucius Manutius Plancus Founds the City of Lugdunum (Lyon)

43 BCE
Scale model of roman city of Lugdunum, according to Amable Audin's archeologic theories. Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière
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Scale model of roman city of Lugdunum, according to Amable Audin's archeologic theories. Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière

In 43 BCE Roman senator and consul Lucius Munatius Plancus founded Colonia Copia Claudia Augusta Lugdunum (now: Lyon, France). Lugdunum served as the capital of the Roman province Gallia Lugdunensis.  It was possibly the most important city in the Roman Empire west of Italy.

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