On Monday, on our return trip from Zurich, we also stopped at an Augustan Roman town, complete with amphitheater and Roman temple set on the slope of a hill about ten miles from Basel. Hard to imagine all those Italians huddled here in winter time, but apparently it was an important place during the Roman campaigns in France and Germany. They intend to start using the amphitheater again for performances of some kind, and have restored the seats by lining them in gravel jammed into cages, like you see sometimes along a mountain highway, which ought to make for a comfortable evening sometime in the future.