Orleans

Orleans is a Cathedral city on the river Loire and is the capital of the Centre-Val de Loire Region in north central France.
It is noted for its Gothic Cathedral of Sainte-Croix (1278-1329 CE) and as being the location where Joan of Arc saved the city of Orleans from a siege by the English in 1432 CE.

Orleans was originally Cenabum, the Gallic Oppidum of the Carnutes. It was a port city with a bridge across the Loire.
In 52 BCE, during the Gallic Wars, the Carnutes leaders, Cotuatus and Conetodunus, decided to attack the Roman Garrison wintering in Cenabum and slaughtered them. Julius Caesar swiftly returned and razed the city to the ground.
Later, the Emperor Aurelian (270-275 CE) rebuilt the ruins of Cenabum in 274 CE into a new fortified city which he called civitas Aurelianorum. The name eventually changed to become Orleans.
Civitas Aurelianorum was located in the Province of Gallia Lugdunensis.
Orleans Cathedral was built between 1278-1329 CE.
In 1432 CE, during the Hundred Years War between France and England, Joan of Arc famously raised the Siege of Orleans and saved the city.

In 451 CE, the Roman General Flavius Aetius told his Visigothic allies to make their base at Orleans in order to meet the invading Hunnic army led by Attila the Hun.
The Battle took place near Chalons in the Champagne area of France where both armies suffered severe losses, and Attila was forced to retreat.

This battle took place between the Kingdom of Soissons led by the Roman General Aegidius and the Visigoths who launched an attack from their new State of Septimania.
Aegidius defeated the Visigoths and the Kingdom of Soissons continued in existence until 486 CE.

Gallo-Roman City Walls
- Along the north side of Orleans Cathedral and along Rue de la Tour-Neuve,

Hotel Cabu Musee d’Histoire et d’Archeologie
- Located at Square Abbe Desnoyers, 1, Orleans.
- It holds a Gallo-Roman collection of bronze statues.

Gallo-Roman Walls of Orleans, Rue de la Tour Neuve.