Gard: what to see and do
50 sites listed in the département. Between the UNESCO-listed Cévennes, the exceptional Roman heritage of the Pont du Gard and characterful villages such as Uzès, the Gard offers a rare wealth of heritage. The Gorges du Gardon and the Cirque de Navacelles complete this département at the gateway to Provence.
Seaquarium - Musée de la mer
Giant aquarium and marine mammal area. Mediterranean and tropical fish, shark tunnel and walkway, giant seal and sea-lion tank, many interactive areas, children's trail, Sea Museum.
Cascade du Sautadet
The Cèze has carved channels and cavities that end up joining and forming crevasses into which the river rushes.
Pont du Gard
The Pont du Gard was built shortly before the Christian era to let the Nîmes aqueduct, nearly 50 km long, cross the Gardon.
Cirque de Navacelle
Like other famous sites of the Grands Causses, the Cirque de Navacelles is visited every year by millions of tourists who come to admire the cut of the Vis canyon through the limestones and dolomites of the Causse de Blandas.
Grotte de la Cocalière
The Cocalière cave, in the commune of Courry in the Gard, stretches out its knotty arms, long endless galleries, to visitors who advance, a little intimidated.
Grotte de la Salamandre
You can discover the site in four ways: the viewpoint with a panoramic view of the cave, the guided tour, the Grand Rappel (50 metres' descent to discover the immense hall from its ceiling) and the Coulisses (two hours of caving adventure in the cave's hidden galleries).
Grotte du Trabuc
The Trabuc cave is the largest underground network in the Cévennes. The Underground Safari route follows the main galleries, those travelled by the first discoverers.
La Baume du Gardon
The Gardon gorges are north of Nîmes, in the Gard: they start from the hamlet of Russan, where the Maison des gorges du Gardon welcomes visitors, and end in style beneath an arch of the Pont du Gard.
Les Rochers de Sauve
The Mer des Rochers overlooking the medieval town of Sauve, this rocky chaos presents a fairy-tale landscape where vegetation and rocks of astonishing shapes mingle.
Nîmes
Prefecture of the Gard with exceptional ancient heritage, whose arena and Maison Carrée stand next to the elegant eighteenth-century Jardins de la Fontaine.
Uzès
First duchy of France, an elegant town of art with arcaded squares and blond-stone mansions, dominated by the towers of the Duchy and the cathedral.
Abime de Bramabiau
The abyss is the only active network (underground river) developed in France.
Aiguèze
Aiguèze is a small medieval village that overlooks from its cliff the exit of the Ardèche Gorges, one side perched on a cliff above the Ardèche gorges, the other facing the Côtes du Rhône vineyards.
Arènes de Nîmes
The Arènes de Nîmes are a Roman amphitheatre built at the end of the first century, around 90 AD, to host gladiator fights and wild-beast hunts before more than 20,000 spectators seated according to social rank.
Carré d'art
Carré d'Art is a cultural facility in Nîmes bringing together the contemporary art museum and the classified municipal library.
Château d'Espeyran
The Espeyran site, occupied from the sixth century BC, bears witness to man's conquest of the territory bounded by the costière, the Rhône, the Petite Camargue and the sea.
Château de Beaucaire
This fortress, one of the largest in France, was rebuilt under Saint Louis after the annexation of Languedoc to the royal domain in 1229.
Château de Montdardier
The château de Montdardier is in the commune of Montdardier in the Gard. The fortress built in the twelfth century was several times demolished then restored in 1860 by Viollet-le-Duc.
Château de Pondres
It is certain that the original building was built on the foundations of a Ligurian-Celtic village of which nothing remains.
Château de Portes
The château de Portes is not where it is by chance.
Château de Saint-Jean-du-Gard
Château de Saint-Laurent-le-Minier
The château de Rochefort, dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, is the commune's best tourist asset.
Château de Vissec
The château de Vissec was redeveloped in the seventeenth century from a feudal building.
Dinopedia Parc
Fort Saint-André
Fort Saint-André is a medieval fortress which, until the Revolution, protected a garrison, an abbey and a particularly lively town.
Gouffre des Espélugues
The Espélugues cavity is south-east of Dions at the entrance of the Gardon gorges.
La Bouscarasse
La Cascade de la Meuse
From the bridge that spans the Vis river, at the natural site of Saint-Laurent-le-Minier, the Cascade de la Meuse appears in its setting of greenery and rocks.
La Roque-sur-Cèze
This little medieval village is built on a rocky peak and offers a splendid view of the Sautadet Falls, a site classified as a natural area.
La bambouseraie de Prafrance
An exotic park unique in Europe. Famous for its forest of giant bamboo and its national collection.
Le Pont du Gard
Le Vieux Mas
Les Concluses de lussan
The Aiguillon, a stream dry in summer, has traced in the limestone plateau a rocky defile called "Les Concluses".
Les cascades d'Orgon
Lussan
Perched on a rocky peak, Lussan overlooks the valley with its castle. You stroll there with pleasure, among its typical and pleasant houses in shimmering colours.
Maison Carrée à Nîmes
The Maison Carrée is a hexastyle Roman temple built in the early first century in Nîmes, in the Gard.
Mas gallo-romain des Tourelles
The world's first reconstruction of a Gallo-Roman wine cellar, full size and in working order.
Mine Témoin d'Alès
Montclus
The village of Montclus lies in the north-east of the Gard département on a meander of the river Cèze.
Musée Le Préhistorama
This museum is the work of an internationally renowned Finnish scientist: Mr Eirik Granqvist.
Musée de la Romanité de Nîmes
Musée du Bonbon HARIBO
Musée du Scribe
A museum with an original theme over 450 m²: collections of writing objects (from reed pen to metal nib through the goose quill, pen holders, inkwells), history and manufacturing techniques of all writing supports (papyrus, parchment, various papers), reconstruction of a classroom…
Plage de l'Espiguette
A huge beach of sand and dunes in the Gard Camargue, dominated by the Espiguette lighthouse.
Remparts d'Aigues Mortes
On the marshy expanse of the Camargue stands out the fortified enclosure of Aigues-Mortes, built ex nihilo in the thirteenth century by Saint Louis to give the kingdom of France a port on the Mediterranean.
Source Perrier
"Perrier, c'est Fou!" On this promise, the Vergèze production site attracts nearly 100,000 visitors a year.
Source de lafoux
Source de Lafoux and Gorges de la Vis: the Vis gorges (a magnificent cut between the Causse du Larzac and the Causse de Blandas) and the Lafoux resurgence, an oasis of freshness and vitality in a mineral and arid world.
Tour Magne à Nîmes
The Tour Magne is a Gallo-Roman monument in Nîmes, in the Gard. The most imposing remnant of Nîmes's very long Roman wall, it overlooks the Jardins de la Fontaine on Mont Cavalier.
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- Train à vapeur des Cévennes · Gard
- Cascade de la Vis · Gard