Roman itinerary

With heated changing rooms, a selection of cold or warm baths, covered exercise rooms and even an open-air swimming pool, the remains clearly visible at Caerleon suggest that Roman life was at times comfortable and luxurious.

Visitors can step back in time and see history brought to life through modern technology, including animated touch screen games and a light and sound show to create the illusion of 3D swimmers using the baths, as well as information panels, audio posts and humorous silent films.

Caerwent Roman Town is a village and community situated in Monmouthshire about five miles west of Chepstow and eleven miles east of Newport.

It was originally founded by the Romans as the market town of Venta Silurum, the tribal settlement of the Brythonic Silures tribe.

It remained prominent through the Roman era and Early Middle Ages as the site of a road crossing between several important civic centres.

The modern village is built around the Roman ruins which still remain, including impressive fourth century walls stand up to 17 feet / 5.2m high, excavated houses, forum-basilica and a Romano-British temple.

The West Gate barns area provides car parking, level access to toilet facilities and interpretation panels.

Established nearly two millennia ago, this strategically-placed fort at the edge of the Roman Empire bustled with life for more than three hundred years.

Segontium was founded by Agricola in AD77 after he brutally suppressed a rebellion by the native tribe known as the Ordovices. Designed to hold a 1,000-strong regiment of auxiliary infantrymen, it was linked by Roman roads to the main legionary bases at Chester and Caerleon.

Thanks to excavated coins we know the Romans stayed until about AD394 – no other fort in Wales was held so long. Segontium not only controlled access to fertile and mineral-rich Anglesey but later helped defend the Welsh coast against Irish pirates.