The
Sanctuary of the Three Gauls (Tres Galliae) was the focal structure within an administrative and religious complex established by Rome in the very late 1st century BC at
Lugdunum (the site of modern
Lyon in France). Its institution served to federalise and Romanise
Gallia Comata as an Imperial province under
Augustus, following the Gallic Wars of his predecessor
Julius Caesar. The distinctively Gallo-Roman development of the Imperial sanctuary and its surrounding complex are well attested by literary, epigraphic,
numismatic and archaeological evidence.