Gergovie Monument

The Gergovie Monument (monument de Gergovie) or Memorial to Vercingetorix (French: monument commémoratif à Vercingétorix) is a monument by the Clermontois architect Jean Teillard built in 1900 on the eastern edge of the Gergovie plateau, a few kilometers south of Clermont-Ferrand in the French departement of Puy-de-Dôme in Auvergne. It commemorates Vercingetorix's victory over Julius Caesar on this site in 52 BC.

The monument was registered as a French ''Monument historique in March 2018 (the oppidum was registered in 2013) and in November of the same year, the monument was classified, included in a much larger classification of a major part of the Gergovie plateau.

Characteristics
The 26-meter-high monument is made of Volvic stone. It is composed of a support base with 3 columns topped by Corinthian capitals and a Gaulish helmet in whimsical form. The base houses a crypt with a cenotaph of Vercingetorix. Three plates adorn the building.

One of the plates, above the entrance of the crypt on the west side, has the following inscription in Latin:"GERGOVIA IN HIS LOCIS DVX ARVERNORVM VERCINGETORIX C CESAREM INVADENTEM PROFLIGAVIT" Translated into English: "Gergovie / In this place, the Arverni chief / Vercingetorix / defeated the invader Gaius Caesar"