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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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