Explore Nîmes: The Italian City in France! | History, Architecture, & Culture

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[@petejohnson8590]

Wow what a beautiful City, the amphitheater is stunning everywhere it is fantastic, I am loving the architecture it is great, wonderful no traffic, it is very popular, there are many people, you certainly lead a very interesting life, thank you , you are right, the park looks wonderful, 👍👍

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Glad you enjoyed it

[@blackstorm3904]

Wow this is such a beautiful town

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[@glundsgaard]

I love your video. Great energy. Come to my home, Oahu, Hawaii. You'll have a blast. We're in Nimes now watching this to decide where to go tomorrow. Thank so much.

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Hello, thanks for the comment. Are you having a blast? It’s such a great place. I hope to visit there one day. Cheers

[@Virgie.74]

I love this video. It’s a very interesting and full of information.

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[@mrgrimesshow1298]

Cool video, cheers

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[@hdstevie-d974]

I've been to Italy a few times and you're right, it's very Italian looking. I'd like to go

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Hello, you should definitely go

[@domitiusafer]

The Roman monuments of Nimes are the best preserved in the Roman world, especially the amphitheatre built on the model of the Colosseum., whose construction began in 79 AD at the time of the inauguration of the Colosseum of Rome and was inaugurated in 122 at the games given by the Emperor Hadrian during his visit to Nimes. The preservation of the Nîmes amphitheatre is so exceptional that the municipality of Rome used some years ago the images of the Nîmes amphitheatre to promote the Italian capital instead of the dilapidated Roman coliseum, which caused scandal.The Gallic tribe that occupied the region of Nimes (Nemausus in Latin) being part of the faithful allies of Julius Caesar and his nephew Octavian future Emperor Augustus who provided troops in order to conquer the rest of Gaul and defeat his rival Pompey to the 1st then the second allowing him to defeat his rival Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt Cleopatra.The current coat of arms of the city of Nîmes with the crocodile attached to a palm that symbolizes the defeat of Egypt against Rome comes from a coin published in Nîmes recalling this event. As a reward for his fidelity to the cause of his family, the Emperor Augustus who loved to stay in Nimes in his divine shrine located on the present gardens of the Fountain built on the ancient Roman site,fill the city with goodness by endowing it with the largest enclosure of Gaul whose remains can be seen with the great Roman tower (Tour Magne) at the top of the hill above the gardens of the Fountain from which one has a superb panorama of the city and its surroundings, but also the Gate of Italy known as the Gate of Augustus because the bronze statue of the emperor Augustus offered by Mussolini to the city in 1935 as well as the Gate of Spain known as the Gate of France is inscribed in it an inscription reminding that it was through this gate that his entrance was made King of France Louis XIV during his visit to the city in 1660 accompanied by his personal guard of the famous Musketeers, among whom was D"Artagnan immortalized by the novel of Alexandre Dumas. The Emperor Augustus endowed the city with an aqueduct whose visible part remains the spectacular bridge of the Gard that spans the river Gardon about twenty kilometers from Nimes as well as the water tower in Nimes (Castellum divisorum) which is the only monument of this type still existing with that of Pompeii, and which distributed the waters coming from the aqueduct in the pipes of the city .The city in return for the affection of the emperor Augustus built on the forum a temple dedicated to the grandsons of the emperor Augustus which is called Maison Carrée always visible and perfectly preserved. During the 2nd century Nîmes was the cradle of the Roman imperial clan since born in Nîmes Plotine was the wife of the emperor Trajan and contributed to the elevation to the throne of his successor Hadrien hence the latter’s visit to Nîmes in 122 ,which appointed as successor Antoninus son and grandson of senators and consuls born in Nîmes because Augustus had conferred on Nîmes the special status dispensating its inhabitants from paying a tribute to Rome and thus placing the city under the direct administration of Rome and not of the capital of the Narbonne Province, the inhabitants of Nimes considered as Romans sending senators seated in the Roman senate. Antonin, whose reign from 138 to 161 is considered to be that of the Pax Romana, also has as benefactor of the city of his ancestors his stone statue seen in the report.His daughter Fausta marries the emperor Marcus Aurelius and his grandson Commodus was the last emperor of the Antonine dynasty . Nimes had a famous gladiator school in the ancient world,gladiators whose funerary steles can be admired in the museum of the Romanity next to the arenas as as well as many other multiple Roman remains that are grouped there with as main piece the spectacular medallion of Cavaillargues retracing a fight between gladiators. At the death of the Empress Plotine, the Emperor Hadrian made him erect in Nimes a funeral mausoleum from which he will then be inspired to realize his own, the present Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome but this monument was destroyed in 737 by the Frankish chief Charles Martel like all the ancient monuments outside the Roman enclosure, of rage while he had tried to invade the region, not having succeeded in taking the fortress of Nîmes defended by the Visigoth Viscount of Nîmes and his Muslim allies, for little is known of this the amphitheatre of Nîmes was transformed into a fortress by the Visigoths in the 6th century and the rest for more than 700 years until 1391, undergoing numerous military sieges. The fortress of the arenas was the residence of the viscount of Nimes and his garrison called the Knights of the Arenas replaced in 1229 when Nimes was annexed to the kingdom of France by a royal garrison, so that all the kings of France who stayed at Nîmes from Saint Louis in 1248 came to supervise the construction of the port of Aigues Mortes in 1248 before embarking for the crusade in Egypt until Charles VI in 1389 who judged the castle too old, the building of another fortified castle was decided by the Royal Garrison, so that the fortress of the bullring was abandoned by the Royal Castle in 1391. The two arcades of the "amphitheatre plugged on the 2nd floor with openings facing the courthouse are the only vestiges of the military past of the "amphitheatre.

[@michaelcarakostas5786]

Thanks for the video on Nimes. We (US couple) will be in Geneva for 5 days in mid-October then Arles and Nimes for 2-3 days each on our way to Barcelona (by train) at the end of October. (We have a river cruise in-between Geneva and Arles.) Been watching your videos on Geneva for a while. I was very impressed with your video of the waterfall from some time ago but we won’t have a car to go see it. Using your videos to plan the part of the trip where we are on our own - including Barcelona. Kinda hoping we see you walking around Geneva with your camera!!

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Hello, that sounds like a cool trip! I guess you will start in Lyon? You can do most of Geneva in a weekend but Barcelona is more of a 5 day trip in my opinion. I keep meeting people from the channel 🤣

[@YogaBlissDance]

Well "preserved" town meaniing saved, kept looking as it did. Reserved is another word.

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Who cares it looks nice 👍

[@michaelgiordano1004]

Although there was quite a bit to read and see inside I guess it was worth the 6 euros. The coolest part was seeing a model of what the entire complex looked like before it was torn down. What's left is probably 20% of what was there. The best part of Nimes was finding the terminus of the Pont De Gard aqueduct next to the castle. It's where 19100 years ago the water would disperse throughout the town after traveling 30km to get to Nimes.

[@fredts796]

Collioure is pretty. It's close to Spaign

[@didier75012]

Hey, have you seen the Louvre Museum in Paris? The French are really slacking off when it comes to taking care of their beautiful monuments. The roads around there are a mess!

[@fablb9006]

Nobody in France call Nimes « the most italian city outside of Italy ».. nimes in its architecture is typical southern french city. It has a lot of Roman heritage, yes, but not especially Italian. Roman empire was not just Italy. Spain, Italy, Franc, we all were romans, it is not for no reason that we speak latin/romance languages

[@domitiusafer]

If Nîmes is known for its Roman monuments whose state of conservation of some is exceptional, the city has many other later monuments that testify to its very long and rich history often tormented and bloody especially between the 16th and 18th century due to the wars opposing Catholics and Protestants ( the city was one of the capitals of French Protestantism between 1561 and 1629 before being reconquered by the King of France Louis XIII). The 19th largest city in France, with a population of 154,000, offers the particularity of being able to be visited on foot and thus travel through time according to the times; Among the most interesting monuments bearing witness to important historical events, there is the cathedral of Notre Dame and Saint Castor with its beautiful Romanesque frieze, cathedral consecrated by Pope Urban II on July 5, 1096 came to bless the army of the crusaders gathered in Nimes for his departure for the 1st crusade. An event little known but historically very important because it is this army commanded by the Count of Toulouse Raymond IV of Saint Gilles who seized the citadel of Jerusalem , The Tower of David led to the capitulation of the city to the Muslims on 15 July 1099. One of the stained glass windows of the cathedral constitutes the only representation of this character today forgotten but considerable who lord most powerful of the crusade should have become king of the new Christian kingdom of Jerusalem but was dismissed by the jealous barons in favor of the modest Godefroi de Bouillon and who then founded the county of Tripoli (present-day Lebanon). The cathedral also includes the tomb of the cardinal of Bernis, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the King of France Louis XV and Companion of Casanova when he was Ambassador of France to Venice and the tombs of the Catholic ecclesiastics executed by the Protestants during the Michelade on 29 and 30 September 1567 and whose bodies were thrown into a well now covered in the courtyard of the Bishop’s Palace next to the cathedral destroyed by the Protestants then rebuilt in the 17th centuryToday it became the Musée du Vieux Nîmes , five years before the Parisian Saint Barthélémy in 1572, when this time it was the Catholics who massacred the Protestants.The spectacular chapel of the Jesuits erected in 1678 next to the former college of the Jesuits current museum of natural sciences, built under the reign of King Louis XIV testifies to the Catholic reconquest of the city just like the citadel Fort Vauban (now a university after serving as a prison since 1793 during the revolutionary period of Terror until 1991) and the Montcalm barracks, built respectively in 1687 and 1700 by order of King Louis XIV to monitor the Protestant city after the king’s decision to ban in 1685 the Protestant religion that will trigger the war of the Camisards (revolt of the Protestant peasants of the Cévennes and the Nîmoise plain ) with the Place d'Assas built on the site of the garden of a convent where the chief camisard Cavalier surrendered in May 1704 before the marshal of Villars. Nîmes was also a rich textile industrial town until the 90s with the headquarters of world-famous companies founded by Nimes such as Eminence or Cacharel, with the tradition of silk and its linen serge used by Levi-Strauss to create denim clothing in the 19th century in the United States has many mansions concealing under austere facades the inner courtyards and stairs are true architectural gems, some of which are visible only during visits guided and the majority during the 3rd weekendend of September each year during the heritage days where you are afraid to visit them for free as well as the monuments and museums of the city, except the Roman amphitheatre where the bullfights take place because the date coincides with the Feria des Vendanges, Second bullfighting cycle of the city after that of the feria of Pentecost. It is also possible to follow the contours of the ancient Roman enclosure built by order of the Roman emperor Augustus, the largest in Gaul of which there remain many vestiges including the Magne Tower, the ancient Gallic tower recovered by the Romans, which offers visitors who climb to its summit a spectacular panorama of the city and its surroundings, but also the Porte d'Italie (known as the Porte Auguste because of the bronze statue of the emperor) former monumental gate of the enclosure or the Porte d'Espagne so called Porte de France because King Louis XIV made his solemn entry into the city in 1660 accompanied by his guard of musketeers commanded by Colonel D'Artagnan immortalized by the novel The Three Musketeers of Alexandre Dumas who was inspired by the adventures of a Nîmois François Picaud to write his novel the Count of Monte Cristo.Thus, the visitor who passes under the door of France ignores that he borrows the passage of King Louis XIV and D'Artagnan and his musketeers just as in the documentary by borrowing the street of the Aspic, the commentator does not know that he follows the path that the King of France Louis IX future Saint Louis walked every morning to pray at the cathedral from the fortress of the arenas because"Amphitheatre had been transformed into a castle where the king stayed in 1248 who came to the region to supervise the construction of the port of Aigues Mortes from where he embarked for the crusade towards Egypt.

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Hello, lots of info, thanks

[@domitiusafer]

@@travelwithwill1The rich historical heritage of the city of Nîmes makes many historic places festive places (Thus during the feria on the weekend of Pentecost and the harvest in September several private mansions from the 16th to the 19th century are opened and transformed into bodegas, places where the participants of the ferias gather to dance, discuss and drink.) But there are also festive historical places in Nîmes outside the feria period The café Napoleon on boulevard Victor Hugo, rendez vous of the golden youth Nîmes founded in 1867 by a Corsican under the reign of Napoleon III with its ceiling rococo style classified where the bullfighting clubs of the city created the feria of Nîmes of pentecost as recalls a plaque. On the other hand, 20 rue Jean Reboul near the amphitheatre is the bar "Le Prolé" historical headquarters of the communists of Nîmes who ran the city from 1965 to 1983 where take place during the ferias and in the ferias of wild festivals. The place is located in the birthplace in 1884 of the writer, Jean Paulhan, director of the new French magazine and Éditions Gallimard, whose secretary Dominique Aury, in order to seduce him, wrote a sulphurous erotic novel "Histoire d'O".. There is also the hotel Imperator built in 1929 in the art deco style in which most of the bullfighters stars of bullfighting and most of the stars of the song stay, literature, paint, cinema and politicians visiting or in concert or filming in Nîmes.For example the general secretary of the USSR Khrushchev in 1960 or movie stars like Erol Flynn, Trevor Howard, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret ,Cocteau, Matisse, Coco Chanel.The gardens of the hotel Imperator hosted in 1959 the only meeting between two great personalities of the twentieth century the Spanish painter Picasso and the American writer Ernest Hemingway on the occasion of a fair where Picasso had come to support his friend the torero Luis Miguel Dominguin often accompanied by his Hollywood actresses like Ava Gardner then Lauren Bacall, while Hemingway accompanied to Nimes his friend the bullfighter Antonio Ordonez, two bullfighters whose rivalry in the arena inspired Hemingway his latest novel "The Dangerous Summer". The restaurant on the terrace of the media library built in 1993 by the architect Norman Foster opposite the Maison Carrée, in the"location of the old theatre in the city where the greatest artists of the theatre and the French song as Sarah Bernhardt destroyed in 1952 by an arson attack triggered by a singer to whom the director of the theatre had refused an engagement, offers a superb panorama of the city and overlooks the historic city center. The picturesque gypsy district of La Placette where Manitas de Plata stayed and some members of the Gypsys King resound guitar sounds and refers to Spain:La Placette in Nîmes is a village in the city. This neighborhood that has a long history is built around a mythical and emblematic place, a small square, without real name butdressed in a «soul», claimed by the inhabitants. Known to all Nîmes, the Placette seducesby its originality, its color, its small low houses, its popular and friendly side and themixing of the populations that live there, The houses Jullian and Bec de Lièvre by their colorful facades jump at the eyes of this republican district theater violent clashes sometimes murderous especially in the 19th century with the royalists especially during the municipal elections. The equally picturesque bars and restaurants of the rue Fresque, dark and narrow middle-aged alley, one of the oldest streets of Nîmes still very lively where you can admire some mansions, the house of the Advocate of the poor of the 15th century and a restaurant installed on the place of the old brothel of the city.Another restaurant allows to contemplate a bullfighting relic namely a chair of the restaurant borrowed by the team of the bullfighter Morante de la Puebla so that this-The broken bars of the chair bear witness to the impact of the horns on the object while the bullfighter dodged the burden of the bull with the