Nimes Gallery

Landscape with Pont du Gard, Provence, France

The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct that crosses the Gardon River near the town of Vers-Pont-du-Gardin southern France. The Pont du Gard is the highest of all elevated Roman aqueducts, and, along with the Aqueduct of Segovia, one of the best preserved. It was added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1985 because of its historical importance. The aqueduct bridge is part of the Nimes aqueduct, a 50-kilometre (31 mi) system built in the first century AD to carry water from a spring at Use's to the Roman colony of Nemausus (Nimes). Because of the uneven terrain between the two points, the mostly underground aqueduct followed a long, winding route that called for a bridge across the gorge of the Gardon River

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Nimes, view of the country south, France

" These veteran olives are gnarled, split and twisted trunks, throwing out arms that break into a hundred branches. At a distance the same olives looks hoary and soft - a veil of woven light or luminous haze. When the wind blows their branches all one way, they ripple like a sea of silver." - J. A. Symonds. Date: 1904

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Nimes, Roman Baths, France

Now part of the Public Gardens, laid out in the time of Louis XIV. "The sacred spring in the garden still fills the Roman baths to the brim with clear water. Here in the curving pools the men used to bathe." Date: 1904

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