Everything about Orbe totally explained
Orbe (; ) is a
municipality in the
Swiss canton of
Vaud. The town lies on the
Orbe River and has around 5,100 inhabitants. It is the seat of the
district of Orbe counting 19,000 inhabitants.
The town has a
coffee factory owned by
Nestlé producing Nespresso, a
marionette museum, late-
Gothic church and Roman mosaics and ruins.
The Roman Mosaics are composed of several hundreds of pieces on the floor of the original site which was once part of an extremely large Roman villa, a palace belonging to a rich but unknown landowner. The villa was built in approximately
AD 160 and abandoned around the year
AD 270.
Ancient history
During the Roman times, Orbe - then known as Urba - was a town of
Gallia, in the territory of the
Helvetii. In the
Antonine Itinerary it's placed between
Lacus Lausonius and
Ariolica, xviii m.p. from Lacus Lausonius and xxiiii m.p. from Ariolica.
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