Bavay: Among Our Gallic-Roman Ancestors.
It is via the Chaussée Brunehaut, an ancient and straight Roman road, that one must approach Bavay, the ancient Bagacum, capital of the Nervii, whose bravery Caesar himself admired in his Gallic Wars. Situated like an island in the midst of a star of Roman roads that crisscross all of ancient Belgic Gaul, the city reveals, behind the façade of a peaceful flower-adorned village, the vestiges of one of the largest and richest Roman cities in northern France.