In Provenza, the sunniest and Mediterranean France, is Nimes, one of the cities of greater personality. The old large city conserves Roman rest of great quality, has pleasant urban spaces extremely, wide avenues and pleasant enclaves of historical flavor.
It is not a big city, has something more than 100,000 inhabitants, but it is loaded of interest places.
The large city is not exhausting; the construction is low and the abundant, almost subtropical vegetation, as resulting from a benign climatology and an abundance of water, abundance that had an incidence historical-nun that we will see in other chapters.
Nimes is city of white stone, medieval stone that a common character has given to its Roman rest, palaces and Christian temples; And it is city of bulls.
One says that the large city is most Spanish of the French. The bull is tótem of the premises. In the middle of the city, the old amphitheatre continues being center of spectacles. In him the bullfighting fans enjoy the most popular bullfights of the French territory; before him, it appears the statue of a bullfigther, watching at the ground, with serious semblante, almost philosophical. It is the efigie of Nimeño II, prestigious killing French.
Basically, the old district is gathered in a triangular space formed by the boulevards Gambetta, Courbet and Victor Hugo. It is a space that is worth the trouble to cross calmly. In him are outstanding elements like the Maison Carrée, them Arènes, the Door of Augusto or the seat of the Market.
Another extremely recommendable urban scope is around the Garden of the Fontaine, with the temple of Morning call and the Tour Magne.