Temple de Vasso Galate, Roman temple ruins in Clermont-Ferrand, France

The Temple de Vasso Galate is a Roman building from the 2nd century in Clermont-Ferrand and one of France's rare surviving examples of this type. The northern wall section stands today between a residential building and a parking lot in the city center, allowing visitors to grasp the Roman construction techniques and the scale of this ancient religious site.

The building was constructed in the 2nd century CE as a religious center in Roman Augustonemetum, the capital of the Arverni people at that time. The structures survived the centuries and were later absorbed into the expanding medieval city, becoming layered within Clermont-Ferrand's urban development.

The name Vasso Galate is Gaulish, as Gregory of Tours noted in the 6th century when he described the temple's destruction by the Alamannic king Chrocus. Local tradition long called the ruins the "mur des Sarrasins" (Wall of the Saracens). The site has been classified as a monument historique since 1889.

The surviving northern wall stands in a parking lot entered from the north side of Rue Bonnabaud, and it can also be seen from the ground floor of the building on Rue Rameau. The site lies in a flat former marsh where the Tiretaine stream once ran, now channelled underground. The rest of the masonry is buried or destroyed.

The name Vasso Galate is Gaulish, and Gregory of Tours, writing in the 6th century, is the source for the temple's appearance: double walls 30 Roman feet thick, small stones inside and large squared blocks outside, marble and mosaic decoration within, and a lead roof. Local tradition calls the remains the mur des Sarrasins.