On the Gergovie plateau, the City of the Gauls dreamed of by Laurent Wauquiez within the fog | EUROtoday

The shock zone culminates at an altitude of 750 meters, on the majestic Gergovie plateau (Puy-de-Dôme). Seventy hectares of greenery on the foot of the Auvergne volcanoes, the place, exactly, Vercingétorix and his troops repelled the Roman legions of Julius Caesar, in 52 BC. It is in the identical place that, on March 25, 2022 AD, Laurent Wauquiez, nonetheless president of Les Républicains (LR) of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes area, introduced, with hair blowing within the wind and wild enthusiasm, the upcoming creation of an immense and great historic theme park to the glory of our ancestors the Gauls. Code title: “GalliCité”.

With his peepers glowing as if he had drunk a number of magic potion, Laurent Wauquiez declaims: “It’s our culture!” We have generally given up slightly an excessive amount of on placing it ahead. In Waterloo there’s a museum about certainly one of France’s biggest navy defeats. In Gettysburg, within the United States, there’s additionally an outstanding museum which offers context. We must go one step additional in Gergovie! »

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