{"id":27,"date":"2006-11-19T23:20:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T13:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=27"},"modified":"2006-11-19T23:20:51","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T13:20:51","slug":"notes-from-france-nimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/france\/notes-from-france-nimes","title":{"rendered":"Nimes &#8211; Country Roads of France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nimes&#8217; Roman amphitheatre (<em>Les Arenes<\/em>) is one of the best preserved of its kind and its arches remind you of the Colosseum in Rome.\u00a0 Construction of the Colosseum was completed in 80 AD under Titus and\u00a0<em>Les Arenes<\/em> was built at the end of the 1st century AD, so maybe that&#8217;s where the inspiration came from.\u00a0 Nimes had a turbulent history and suffered during the 16th century Wars of Religion.\u00a0 Fortunately, the town prospered during the 17th and 18th centuries from textile manufacturing and, <em>voila<\/em>, anyone who&#8217;s worn denim jeans has this town to thank for as denim originated from Nimes, &#8220;<em>de Nimes<\/em>&#8220;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although Nimes is known for its Roman antiquities, it is also privileged to have a dynamic mayor who has engaged none other than Philippe Starck to redesign the city&#8217;s pedestrian zone and bring about its current design renaissance.\u00a0\u00a0Check out the Philippe Starck designed bus-stop and trendy new arts complex.\u00a0 Blending old with new, you&#8217;ll also see the Maison Carree in the city.\u00a0 This Roman temple, built around 2 AD is one of the best preserved in the world.\u00a0 It&#8217;s now used as a museum, but we did not get to visit as it was closed at the time of our visit.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re through exploring the city, don&#8217;t forget to visit the Jardin de la Fontaine\u00a0in the north-western part.\u00a0 This beautiful formal garden is still quite\u00a0magnificent although slightly faded these days.\u00a0 If you have a powerful camera lens, you will see the octagonal Tour Magne, high above the garden on Mont Cavalier (too far for us to climb in the time we had).\u00a0 This used to be a key part of the Roman walls and the\u00a0views of the city from the viewing platform up there must be fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy petanque, you&#8217;ll get to watch groups of men very seriously engaged in their petanque competition on the way to and back from the Jardin.\u00a0 One of their markers unfortunately shot into the canal and it was amusing watching some of them contemplating how to retrieve this from the water.. <em>pas de chance!<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Helen Page\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nimes&#8217; Roman amphitheatre (Les Arenes) is one of the best preserved of its kind and its arches remind you of the Colosseum in Rome.\u00a0 Construction of the Colosseum was completed in 80 AD under Titus and\u00a0Les Arenes was built at the end of the 1st century AD, so maybe that&#8217;s where the inspiration came from.\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,2193,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-roads-of-france","category-europe-sept-oct-2006","category-france"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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