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The Walled Town of Carcassonne
Carcassonne, France
Between Toulouse and Narbonne to Carcassonne is a medieval town in the modern city. It is easy to distinguish thanks to its enormous doors and walls. This is one of the largest fortified cities in Europe.
Oppidum from the Iron Age, became a Roman city century BCE. The city is then fortified over ...
Porta Augusta
27 Boulevard Amiral Courbet, 30000 Nîmes, France
Formerly Porte d ' Arles this monument was built by the Romans in the 1st century BC. AD It is located east of downtown Nimes.
This door was the entrance to the city in Roman times place. She was also passage travelers followed the domitienne since Italy towards Hispania. Two large arched ...
Pont du Gard
400 Route du Pont du Gard, 30210 Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France
The Pont du Gard is located 5 minutes south of the village of Vers-Pont-du-Gard in the south-east of France between Nimes and Orange, 30 minutes from each of these cities. It is an aqueduct, therefore planned to carry water and built by the Romans in the 1st century.
Crossing the bridge you can ...
Tour Magne
Les Jardins de la Fontaine, 1 Chemin Guillaume Laforêt, 30000 Nîmes, France
The Magne Tower is located in the northwest part of downtown Nimes. This is one of the many legacies of the ancient Roman era Nîmes. Located at the highest point of the city it is now surrounded by a pleasant Provencal garden. It was formerly one of the built-in wall speaker Augustan military ...
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes
Rue de la Cité Foulc, 30000 Nîmes, France
In the early nineteenth century the museum was an ancient building called the Maison Carree, there was ancient and more recent paintings works. In the early twentieth it became too small, a new museum was then built a few hundred meters between Nimes Arena and the railway station. This new and ...
Arena of Nîmes
Boulevard des Arènes, 30000 Nîmes, France
Les Arenes de Nimes are in the city center. It is a Roman amphitheater famous historical monument dating from the 1st century AD. AD
This exceptionally well-preserved building is an architectural marvel. It is built in two levels made of 60 arches each. Its facade rises to 21m high. Elliptical ...
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