Things to do in Nîmes
Around Nîmes, Notrebellefrance lists 20 tourist sites within 25 km, including 7 castles, 5 museums, 2 towns and cities and 2 bridges. Not to be missed: Pont du Gard, Nîmes and La Baume du Gardon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Carré d'art
Carré d'Art is a cultural facility in Nîmes bringing together the contemporary art museum and the classified municipal library.
Maison Carrée à Nîmes
The Maison Carrée is a hexastyle Roman temple built in the early first century in Nîmes, in the Gard.
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.
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.
Musée de la Romanité de Nîmes
Gouffre des Espélugues
The Espélugues cavity is south-east of Dions at the entrance of the Gardon gorges.
Source Perrier
"Perrier, c'est Fou!" On this promise, the Vergèze production site attracts nearly 100,000 visitors a year.
Musée du Bonbon HARIBO
Mas gallo-romain des Tourelles
The world's first reconstruction of a Gallo-Roman wine cellar, full size and in working order.
Le Pont Ambroix ou Pont d'Ambrussum
The Pont Ambroix, or Pont d'Ambrussum, is a Roman bridge built in the first century over the Vidourle river at Ambrussum. A few metres away is an ancient Gaulish oppidum on the Via Domitia.
Le Pont du Gard
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 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.
Le Vieux Mas
La Bouscarasse
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.