Attractions in Nîmes

Carré d'Art - Museum of contemporary art

Carré d'Art - Museum of contemporary art Office de Tourisme de Nîmes & L.Martorell
Square metre upon square metre of art.

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Gardens of the Fountain
Gardens of the Fountain
To the ancient source.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the need for water increased in the city of Nîmes to meet the consumption of the residents and that of the factories. Research was therefore undertaken which revealed a Roman works left abandoned since Mediaeval

Les Arènes in Nîmes (amphitheatre)
Les Arènes in Nîmes (amphitheatre)
Violence and beauty in the Antique arenas.

The Nîmes amphitheatre, built in the late 1st century BC, boasts the same oval shape as Rome's Coliseum. The 21m tall facade consists of two levels, with two rings of 60 arches stacked on top of one another, along with an attic. During the Antiquity

Maison carrée de Nîmes
Maison carrée de Nîmes
An ancient building, good as new.

Built in the year 5 AD in honour of Caius Caesar, the Maison Carrée ("Square House") is the best preserved building of Nimes. Its podium supports 30 Corinthian columns. In ancient times, the Maison Carrée was the economic and administrative centre o

Nîmes Archaeology museum
Nîmes Archaeology museum
From the Iron Age to the Middle Ages.

A tenant of the former Jesuit college of the 17th century, the musée archéologique de Nîmes (the Nîmes Archaeological Museum) was part of the most important museums in France.Collections from the Iron Age and the Gallo-Roman era predominate with a m

Tour Magne
Tour Magne
Gallantly from the Tour Magne to Nîmes.

The Tour Magne (Great Tower) was built around an Iron Age tower of dry stones of which there remains no trace.A regular octagonal shape, it was in around 15 BC, before our era, made up of three levels built set back one from another, on top of a bas

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