The New Mithraeum Database

The remains of the Mithraeum of Aosta, also known as the Mitreo di Augusta Praetoria, were discovered in 1953 in insula 59, in a commercial district of the ancient city.

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Aosta is the principal city of the Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, 110 km north-northwest of Turin.

Excavations in 1979 on the remains of the church of Notre-Dame d'Avigonet in Mandelieu, Alpes-Maritimes, brought to light a small mithraeum.

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The Gaulish name of today Martigny was either Octodurus or Octodurum in the 1st century BC. It was conquered by the Romans in 57 BC and occupied by Servius Galba with the Legion XII.

The Mithraeum of Martigny is the first temple devoted to Mithras found in Switzerland.

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