Ricciacum is the site of a Gallo-Roman vicus at Dalheim in southeastern Luxembourg, founded under the emperor Augustus at a strategic point on the Via Agrippa, the main Roman road linking the Mediterranean to the Rhine. The settlement is known for a well preserved theatre from the second century AD that could seat 3,500 people, along with temples, public baths and residential buildings uncovered by excavation. It flourished through the second and third centuries but was repeatedly damaged by Germanic invasions and was finally abandoned amid the barbarian invasions after 407 AD.
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