A walled town in the marshes of the Camargue, built by Saint Louis in the 13th century as his port for the Crusades, with ramparts over 1.6 km long still complete. Walk all the way round on top of the walls for views over the town, the marshes and the pink salt pans.
The Tour de Constance was used as a prison for Protestant women; one, Marie Durand, carved 'Résister' into its stone.
The western part of the Camargue, a land of marshes, reed beds, lagoons and salt meadows where white horses, black bulls and flamingos live.
One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheatres in the world, built around 70 AD and seating about 24,000 people.
Beautiful 18th-century gardens built around the spring that gave Nîmes its name, with statues, stone balustrades, canals and the ruins of the Roman T…
A great Benedictine abbey on a rocky hill outside Arles, with a Romanesque church, a cloister with carved capitals and a fortified tower.
Wild limestone gorges of the Gardon river upstream of the Pont du Gard, with cliffs, caves and the hermitage of Notre-Dame de Laval.
A Roman aqueduct bridge built in the 1st century AD to carry water across the Gardon river to Nîmes.
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