The Triumphal Arch of Orange stands about 600 meters north of the town center of Orange, in southeastern France, on the former Via Agrippa. Its date is debated, and research that accepts the inscription favors the reign of Augustus. It was first built to honor veterans of the Gallic Wars and the Legio II Augusta.
The arch is 64.2 feet (19.57 meters) long, 28 feet (8.4 meters) wide and 63 feet (19.21 meters) high. It has three arches, and the central one is larger. Each facade has four half-columns in the Corinthian order. Military reliefs show naval battles, spoils of war, and Romans fighting Germans and Gauls.
Tiberius had it rebuilt to celebrate the victories of Germanicus, and an inscription to Tiberius dates to AD 27. It is the oldest surviving example of a design later used for the arches of Septimius Severus and Constantine in Rome. Auguste Caristie restored it in the late 1820s. UNESCO inscribed it in 1981.
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