Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments |Arles, Roman and
Romanesque Monuments| |Name as inscribed on the World Heritage
List| Ruins at the Roman theatre. |UNESCO region||Europe and
North America| |Inscription||1981 (5th Session)| Arles, Roman
and Romanesque Monuments (French: Arles, monuments romains et
romans) is an area containing a collection of monuments in the
city centre of Arles, France, that has been listed as a UNESCO
World Heritage Site since 1981. The official brief description
for this as a World Heritage Site is: Arles is a good example of
the adaptation of an ancient city to medieval European
civilization. It has some impressive Roman monuments, of which
the earliest – the arena, the Roman theatre and the
cryptoporticus (subterranean galleries) – date back to the 1st
century B.C. During the 4th century Arles experienced a second
golden age, as attested by the baths of Constantine and the
necropolis of Alyscamps. In the 11th and 12th centuries, Arles
once again became one of the most attractive ci