19 Sights in Nimes, France (with Map and Images)

The so-called Temple of Diana is a 1st-century ancient Roman building in Nîmes, Gard, built under Augustus. It is located near the gushing spring of "La Fontaine", around which was an Augusteum, a sanctuary devoted to the cult of the emperor and his family, centred on a nymphaeum. Its basilica-like floor plan argues against it being a temple and there is no archaeological or literary evidence for its dedication to Diana.

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The Maison carrée is an ancient Roman temple in Nîmes, southern France; it is one of the best-preserved Roman temples to survive in the territory of the former Roman Empire. It is a mid-sized Augustan provincial temple of the Imperial cult, a caesareum.

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The Magne Tower is a Gallo-Roman monument located on Mont Cavalier, in Nîmes, in the Gard region. It dominates the Jardins de la Fontaine and is the most imposing vestige of the city's very long Roman walls.

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The Arena of Nîmes is a Roman amphitheatre in Nîmes, southern France. Built around 100 CE, shortly after the Colosseum of Rome, it is one of the best-preserved Roman amphitheatres in the world. It is 133 metres (436 ft) long and 101 metres (331 ft) wide, with an arena measuring 68 by 38 metres. The outer facade is 21 metres (69 ft) high with two storeys of 60 arcades. It is among the 20 largest Roman amphitheatres of the 400 in existence. In Roman times, the building could hold 24,000 spectators, who were spread over 34 tiers of terraces divided into four self-contained zones or maeniana.

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Les Jardins de la Fontaine is a public park located in Nîmes, in the Gard region. They are built around the original Nîmes spring, already venerated by the peoples before the arrival of the Romans. The source of the Fontaine is also at the origin of the creation of the agglomeration several centuries before the Gallo-Roman period. The architectural organization of the gardens also highlights two of the city's major ancient monuments, the Temple of Diana and the Magne Tower.

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The Church of Saint-Césaire in Saint-Césaire-lès-Nîmes is a Romanesque church located in Saint-Césaire-lès-Nîmes, a small village attached to the commune of Nîmes in the French department of Gard and the Occitanie region.

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The Church of Saint-Paul is a neo-Romanesque style church located in Nîmes, in the Gard department and in the Occitanie region. Classified as a historical monument in 1909, it has a powerful bell tower rising 62 metres at the crossing of the transept.

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The Protestant Cemetery is a religious building in the city of Nîmes, in the Gard department and in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. The oldest collective Protestant cemetery in France, it contains nearly 6,000 graves, 2,720 of which are "active" and several notoriety in Nîmes.

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The Grand Temple of Nîmes is a place of worship of the United Protestant Church of France located in Nîmes, in the Gard department of Occitania. It has been listed as a historical monument since 1964.

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The Church of Sainte-Perpétue et Sainte-Félicité de Nîmes is an eclectic style church, typical of the Second Empire, located in Nîmes, in the Gard department and the Languedoc-Roussillon region. The bell tower on the façade has a high spire, dominating the Charles-de-Gaulle esplanade by 71 metres. It is crowned by an impressive 8-metre wrought iron cross, 5 metres of which are embedded in the spire itself. It has a particularly slender nave rising to more than 20 meters.

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The Hôtel Boudon, also known as the Hôtel Meynier de Salinelles, is a civil building in the city of Nîmes, in the Gard department and the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It has been listed as a historical monument since 2004.

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The Hôtel de Possac is a civil building in the city of Nîmes, in the Gard department and in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. The wrought iron stair railing in its inner courtyard has been listed as a historical monument since 1964.

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The Hôtel de Brueys, also known as Hôtel André or Hôtel d'Aubais, and more rarely Hôtel de Fabrique, is a civil building in the city of Nîmes, in the Gard department and in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. Partially listed as a historical monument in 1964, it has been fully listed since 2012.

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The Novi Hotel in Caveirac, also called Hotel Chouleur, is a civil building in the city of Nîmes, in the Gard department and the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It has been classified as a historic monument since 2004.

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The Hôtel-Dieu de Nîmes is a former hospital in the city of Nîmes, in the Gard department and in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. The building has housed the premises of the Nîmes Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 1936 and has been listed as a historical monument since 2000.

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The Hôtel Foulc, also known as the Hôtel Colomb de Daunant, is a civil building in the city of Nîmes, in the Gard department and the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It has been listed as a historical monument since 1995.

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Paul Rabaut's house is a building located in Nîmes — in the Gard department and the Languedoc-Roussillon region — which owes its name to the pastor of the Desert Church Paul Rabaut who owned it in the eighteenth century. In 2001, the house was listed as a historical monument.

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The Church of Notre-Dame-du-Suffrage-et-Saint-Dominique is a religious building in the city of Nîmes, in the Gard department in the Occitanie region. It has been listed as a historical monument since 2002.

Wikipedia: Église Notre-Dame-du-Suffrage-et-Saint-Dominique (FR)

The Pradier Fountain is a monumental marble fountain inaugurated on the esplanade of Nîmes on June 1, 1851. Its creators are the architect Charles Questel and the sculptor James Pradier and it is listed as a historical monument by decree of November 16, 1988.

Wikipedia: Fontaine Pradier (Nîmes) (FR)