VILLAGES OF PROVENCE

 

Nimes
A popular tourist destination, Nimes is rich in history, built in 118BC by the Romans as a way to connect Italy to Spain. Over the centuries various emperors endowed the city with baths, aquaduct, amphitheatre, basilicia, gymnasium and even a circus. The amphitheatre is still used for bull fighting and concerts today.
In the 18th Century the Gardens of Fountains were built around the Roma ruins and were fed by waters from the Pont du Gard. Superb tree-lined boulevards trace the foundations of its former city walls.
Nimes is also known for its manufacture of denim, which derives its name from the city.
A superb glimpse of life in the City of Baths.

Pont du Gard
A UNESCO world heritage site, the Pont du Gard is a superb example of an ancient Roman aquaduct bridge which crossed the Gard River. It connected running water from Uzès to Nimes over 50 kilometres. Constructed by the Romans in 1st Century AD it is the second highest of all Roman aquaduct bridges and is indicative of the great precision Roman engineers achieved with simple technology. It is deemed on of France’s greatest tourist attractions.

Uzès
This stunning limestone town lies at the source of the Eure River, from where a Roman aquaduct was in built in the 1st Century AD to supply water to Nimes. By the 15th Cenury it had became known as a extremely civilised and urbane society and was a major cloth manufacturing centre.
After the French Royal Family, the Dukes of Uzès held the premier title in peerage of France.
Uzès is now famous for its magnificent plane tree lined, limestone arched town square, markets, chapel, feudal towers and cathedral with traces of its city walls as a circuit of boulevards.

TOURS IN PROVENCE - FRANCE
Guided tours of Roman sites in Provence