A great Benedictine abbey on a rocky hill outside Arles, with a Romanesque church, a cloister with carved capitals and a fortified tower. Van Gogh came here often to draw the views over the plain.
Climb the Pons de l'Orme tower for views over the Alpilles and the Camargue. The tiny hermitage of Saint-Pierre is carved into the rock.
The ruins of a Greek and Roman town at the foot of the Alpilles hills, with temples, baths, a forum and houses.
One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheatres in the world, built around 70 AD and seating about 24,000 people.
The western part of the Camargue, a land of marshes, reed beds, lagoons and salt meadows where white horses, black bulls and flamingos live.
A Roman aqueduct bridge built in the 1st century AD to carry water across the Gardon river to Nîmes.
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…
The largest Gothic palace in the world, built in the 14th century when the popes lived in Avignon instead of Rome.
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