In the Spanish peninsula the town of Braga in northern Portugal seems to stand alone.

In Roman Africa--Tunis, Algiers and Morocco--no instance has survived the Arab conquest.[88] [87] For Orange see p.107.Nimes may possibly retain one or two streets of the Roman Nemausus, but it is very doubtful; see Menard's map of 1752.

See further in general p.

142.
[88] Though, curiously enough, the chess-board pattern of field divisions has survived in the neighbourhood of Carthage.
If, however, survivals of ancient streets are as rare in the provinces as they are common in Italy, the provinces yield other evidence unknown to Italy.

In these lands, and above all in Africa, the sites of many Roman towns have lain desolate and untouched since Roman days, waiting for the excavator to recover the unspoilt pattern of their streets.