The Pont du Gard

A day with the Romans, we first visited Arles, a fantastic place full of Roman remains including an amphitheatre where bull fights still happen 3 times per year. The amphitheater is some 2000 years old. Van Gogh featured in the tour guides information and we saw buildings he had painted before his untimely death.

After lunch we travelled to the Pont du Gard. Built by the Roman’s some 2000 years ago as part of a 50 kilometre aqueduct to carry fresh water 50 kilometres to Nimes. It carried water for 3 centuries. Much later it was used as a road bridge until 1900. Fantastic civil engineering now preserved by UNESCO.