What the Latin literature truly tells us about the orientation of camps, towns and centuriation

Here we are proposing a presentation and translation of some parts of the work by J. Le Gall on the solar orientation of the Roman camps, towns and centuriation. Le Gall is giving us a detailed description of the Latin literature regarding this orientation. The article, that was published in 1975 in the Mélanges de l'école française de Rome is therefore a fundamental reading so as not to get biased by any suggestion about solar orientation, that we can find in modern literature.