NÎMES France | Complete City Guide with All Highlights
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Nîmes is a beautiful city located in the southern part of France, in the region of Occitanie. Known for its rich history and ancient Roman architecture, Nîmes is a popular tourist destination. One of the city's most iconic landmarks is the Arena of Nîmes, which dates back to the first century AD and is one of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters in the world. Other notable attractions include the Maison Carrée, a perfectly preserved Roman temple, and the Pont du Gard, an ancient aqueduct that spans the Gardon River. Nîmes is also famous for its denim-like fabric, known as "denim" or "serge de Nîmes," which is said to have given birth to the modern blue jeans.
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0:00 Intro
1:41 La Gare de Nimes (Train station) and Avenue Feuchere
3:24 Fontaine Pradier
4:19 Les Arènes (Roman Arena)
5:27 Fun fact: Nimes and denim jeans
6:42 Church of Sainte Perpetue
7:43 Vieille Ville (old town)
8:33 Place aux Herbes
9:40 Nimes cathedral
11:47 Place de l'horloge (Nimes clocktower)
12:37 Les Halles de Nimes fresh market
16:06 La Maison Carée
19:17 Jardins de la Fontaine
21:35 Temple de Diana
23:34 Soirée aux Arènes: Festival de Nimes concert
25:29 Sunset drone flight over Nimes
27:44 Ben Harper concert at Festival de Nimes
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Really Enjoyed your video
Great walking tour of Nimes
Liked the music too
Thank
Thank you very much 👍🌺
Wonderful look at this most Roman yet French city. Thanks for posting it.
Thank you very much! It’s a beautiful city 🌺
Fantastic share my friend. I like to watch your videos. Greetings from Germany.
Thank you and greetings to Germany
Thank you for acquainting your viewers to such an extraordinary place, Sir J The mix of the place was indeed eclectic, but very beautiful.✨️❤
I think it was such a treat to see a concert in the Nîmes Arena. Just wow...
Your presentation is wonderful, as always. ✨️🫰🏻🫶🏻
Thank you Cris, I loved the concert in this beautiful location
Thank you for showing the historical town of Nimes. It belongs to the groupe of towns in South France, which are jewels. The concert at the Roman area is an appropriate end of this beautiful video.
Nimes really surprised me. It’s an amazing town and the concert was the icing on the cake 😊
Such a great travel guide, Janus! I really enjoyed the tour and the story of each places 👍 Quite a lot of Roman architecture in Nîmes and the fact about Denim Jeans are really interesting 😊 Did you try some original French delicacies at the market? Looks sooo yummy 😋
Thank you 🙏
Yes, I had a small snack there but could have taken more 😅
Dear Janus,
I regularly watch your magnificent videos, and I particularly enjoy those about Switzerland, the country that holds a special place in my heart. However, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that you are currently in Nîmes, my hometown! After being unable to return for four years, it's an emotional experience to see my city captured so beautifully by you.
I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for your high-quality content and sincerely hope that you have enjoyed or are enjoying your stay. Bienvenue à Nîmes !
Best regards from Japan
Thank you
I really loved my stay in Nimes
What an amazing town!!!
Greetings to Japan
Hi Janus, I'm really enjoying this series and Nimes is now on my list! To see a concert in a 2000 year old arena would be a dream, I'm a huge live music fan. It was so nice to open up and see a great video to start off my Canada day celebrating, Cheers with a beer!🍺 🇨🇦
Thank you Ed
The concert in this historical location was epic
Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦
Felicitations for your well-documented visit to the city of Nîmes where you can see various monuments that show that the very ancient and rich history of Nîmes is not limited to the Roman monuments even if they are spectacular and very well preserved. Indeed, few people who know the history of the Nîmes canvas at the origin of the jean because Nîmes was a major centre of the textile industry and the seat of several French textile companies founded by Nîmes and known worldwide as Eminence or Cacharel. As few people know the Michelade of 1567 where the Nîmois Protestants massacred the Catholics of the city (the opposite of what will happen in Paris during the Saint Barthélémy in 1572) or that the construction of the church Sainte Perpétue will be inaugurated in 1852 by the 1st president of the French republic the prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte future emperor Napoleon III and nephew of Napoleon 1st Bonaparte ;The particularity of Nîmes is that all the churches, except the cathedral , are built from the middle of the 17th century after the capture of the Protestant stronghold in 1629 by the King of France Louis XIII . Indeed, includes Protestants destroyed churches and religious buildings of the Middle Ages during the wars of religion in the 16-17th century (ex the building of the Roman sanctuary called the Temple of Diana which was transformed into a convent and which the Protestants blew up in 1577 so that only the ruins remain in the gardens of the Fountain) , with the exception of the cathedral preserved because of its bell tower used for military observation. It was in the Cathedral of Notre Dame and Saint Castor and its surroundings, especially in Place aux Herbes, that one of the most important international events in history took place, strangely the least known in the history of Nîmes, namely the departure of soldiers and knights for the 1st Crusade in the Holy Land gathered at Nîmes before their departure under the command of the Count of Toulouse Raymond IV of Saint Gilles ,came to receive the blessing of Pope Urban II on July 6, 1096, who came to preach the Crusade after he consecrated the cathedral the day before on July 5, 1096. It was this army of crusaders from Nîmes that was going to seize the citadel of Jerusalem, the Tower of David, on July 15, 1099 causing the capitulation of the city then in the hands of the Muslims. The only trace of this event is one of the stained glass windows of the cathedral which constitutes the only representation of the count of Toulouse Raymond IV of Saint Gilles, A historical figure now forgotten but important because it was he who encouraged the Crusaders, who after the capture of the city of Antioch wanted to wait for reinforcements, to continue the march on Jerusalem which he contributed to the conquest. Removed from the throne of the new Christian kingdom of Jerusalem by the jealousy of the crusader barons who preferred him the modest Godefroi de Bouillon, he went to conquer new lands and founded the county of Tripoli (present-day Lebanon) and died in the Holy Land in 1105, as he had solemnly vowed in the cathedral of Nimes before his departure for crusade. Moreover other historical testimony of the cathedral, are buried under the cathedral the bodies of the Nîmois clergymen gathered and then executed by the Protestants during the Michelade in 1567 in the court of pleasure of the"Bishop (now the Old Nimes Museum next to the cathedral) and then thrown into a well currently covered by the steps of the building rebuilt in the 17th century after its destruction by the Protestants. The skeletons of the bodies were recovered from the well after the capture of the city by Louis XIII in 1629 and buried under the cathedral.
The cathedral of Nîmes also houses the tomb of the cardinal of Bernis minister of the king of France Louis XV who welcomed his friend Casanova known when he was ambassador of France to Venice, when he escaped from the prison of the Plombs in Venice and came to take refuge in France.
Wow, thank you for the excellent additional information! I always love to learn more in the comments and you have definitely enriched the video 👍🌺
I visited Nimes a few days ago and it is magnificent. Like you, I also made a vlog which is online. best wishes
That’s awesome
I’m sure you enjoyed your visit
Best of luck for your channel 👍
Waren daar 3 dagen ,prachtige stad
It really is a beautiful city. I’m sure you enjoyed your stay there 👍🌺
Love from pakistan
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Greetings to Pakistan 🇵🇰
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