Legions of Rome - Marching for the Empire

The Ermine Street Guard in action, with help from Dutch, Germans, Italians and Belgians. You can see them marching, forming a testudo, the Line, the Wedge and a training fight between legionnaries. Luckily, this year the weather was great, so I was able to make videos of the cavalry display in addiion to the march of the legion. I hope you enjoy it. The event took place in the archaeological park in Xanten, Germany: The Ermine Street Guard: Check out the show of the gladiators of “Amor Mortis“: Xanten is a small German town near Duisburg. It is mostly known for its archaeological park in which one can visit the former Roman town Colonia Ulpia Traiana, a settlement of veterans near the Rhine from 110 A.D. to 275 A.D., when it was destroyed by the Franks. Today the archaeologists try to bring the Roman era back to life with experimental archaeology. Also, Xanten is the mythological birthplace of