Photographs taken in May 2005 in and around Nîmes, France.

Nîmes

	The Arènes de Nîmes, the 2,000-year-old Roman theatre, still in regular use.
	The Maison Carrée
	View from the Maison Carrée
	Statuary, Jardin de la Fontaine
	Statuary, Jardin de la Fontaine
	Statuary, Jardin de la Fontaine
	Jardin de la Fontaine, climbing to the Tour Magne
	The Tour Magne
	The Temple of Diana
	Statue of Pan

	Side street in the old town, Nîmes
	The Arènes de Nîmes
	The Arènes de Nîmes
	The Arènes de Nîmes
	The Arènes de Nîmes
	The Arènes de Nîmes
	The Place de l'Horloge by day...
	...and by night!
	Cathédrale de Notre-Dame et St-Castors
	Cathédrale de Notre-Dame et St-Castors

	Statue of Christian Moncouquiol, a torero who died in the arena in 1991.
	Door to the Hôtel de Ville, with the palm tree and crocodile motif of Nîmes.
	The Castellum Divisorum, the first-century Roman waterworks. This was the arrival point for water from the Pont du Gard aqueduct.
	Horsemanship display out side the arena, before the corrida
	Inside the arena, before the corrida.
	The arrival of the toreros
	I believe this is Jonathan Veyrunes, the star of tonight's show
	The horsemen arrive...
	...and also the heavy horses, whose job is to drag away the carcass of the dead bull.
	The bull charges

	The picador draws first blood
	The by now heavily bleeding bull faces the matador
	The coup de grace approaches
	The dead bull is hastily removed, and the blood cleaned up.
	The Maison Carrée by night
	A big paella, served up for the feria
	The Maison Carrée again
	The arena by night

Aigues-Mortes

	Ste Catherine's Tower
	Inside the tower
	View over the rooftops of Aigues-Mortes
	View over the rooftops of Aigues-Mortes, towards Ste Catherine's Tower
	View over the rooftops of Aigues-Mortes, towards Ste Catherine's Tower
	Roof detail, Aigues-Mortes
	View along the inside of the ramparts
	Street in Aigues-Mortes
	Street in Aigues-Mortes
	City gate, Aigues-Mortes

	Confiserie, Aigues-Mortes
	Restaurant sign, Aigues-Mortes
	Image of St Louis, in the church at Aigues-Mortes
	Houses by the river, Aigues-Mortes

Pont du Gard

	The aqueduct, built in the first century, restored in the nineteenth century and continuing to be restored in the twenty-first.
	View across the aqueduct
	Nineteenth-century mason's graffiti

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