Salon was a Gallo-Roman oppidum well positioned on the salt trade routes
between Adriatic, Atlantic and Mediterranean seas, hence its name. This region
was under the Phocaean influence since the sixth century BCE, and stretches of
the Via Aurelia can still be recognized just outside the town, but the earliest
mention of the place under its familiar name is of the ninth century, as
Villa Salone. The archbishops of
Arles controlled the site.
Its principal claim to fame today is as the place where Nostradamus spent
his last years and is buried. His dwelling is
