Nîmes City Add-On

France’s Roman City

The vibrant southern city of Nîmes is known for its beautiful Roman amphitheatre and Maison Carrée. As a contrast to your other Inntravel holiday in southern France, add on a stay in our centrally located hotel of character. We provide notes for a self-guided city walking tour.

What is included

2 nights
2 breakfasts
notes for a self-guided city walking tour

Nîmes City Add-On

France’s Roman City

Beautiful gardens

Colourful markets

Sightseeing

Town square

Holiday information

- Holiday type
  
  City Add-On
- Included extras
  
  Notes for a self-guided city walking tour
- Average carbon footprint
  
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  14kg CO₂e per person, excluding travel
- Nights
  
  2
- Accommodation
  
  Centrally located hotel
- Meals
  
  Breakfast every day
- Price
  
  From £175pp
- Travel
  
  None included
- Start
  
  Any day
- When you can travel
  - J
  - F
  - M
  - A
  - M
  - J
  - J
  - A
  - S
  - O
  - N
  - D
  The season for this holiday is:
  01 April 2025 - 31 October 2025
  01 April 2026 - 31 October 2026

Nimes

Situated midway along the Via Domitia linking Italy and modern-day Spain, Nîmes was a prosperous Roman city, and that’s where its attraction lies – the city boasts some of the largest Roman monuments in Europe, and certainly the best-preserved remains you will find anywhere in France.

There are two other important sites – the superbly proportioned Maison Carrée and the Porte d’Auguste gateway – but the real focal point is the 1st-century amphitheatre, Les Arènes. Beyond the numerous archways of its impressive exterior, gladiators fought wild animals and one another while a blood-thirsty crowd of thousands looked on.

To pull yourself back to the present, visit the glass-and-concrete building housing Nîmes’ museum of contemporary art, as stark a contrast as you can imagine to the city’s ancient past.

Explore the city

Notes for a self-guided walking tour included

Notes for a self-guided walking tour included

As you’ll discover as you follow our self-guided walking tour, Nîmes’ three star attractions are all of Roman origin. The first, Les Arènes, is so large that it could seat 20,000 spectators for gladiatorial fights and other events. The second is the Porte d’Auguste, a gateway into this once-walled city that was named after Emperor Augustus, while the third is the Maison Carrée, a colonnaded temple of harmonious proportions sitting in its own square. Just a stone’s throw away is a very different building altogether: the Carré d’Art, an imposing modern building designed by Norman Foster which houses a museum of contemporary art. After strolling through the alleys and squares between this and the cathedral with its sculpted frieze depicting Adam and Eve, head for the Jardin de la Fontaine, where you can wander up the wooded slope, past a series of grottoes, to the Roman Tour Magne, for views that are claimed to stretch as far as the Pic de Canigou in the Pyrenees.

Accommodation

The hotel is ideally located for exploring the city. We provide suggestions for where to eat out in the documentation that we send you prior to your holiday.

Hotel Marquis de la Baume

The centrally located and beautifully decorated Hotel Marquis de la Baume is a charming mix of modernity and tradition, having been converted from a 17th-century townhouse complete with an amazing stone staircase and a vaulted entrance hall and breakfast room. The comfortable bedrooms are elegant with modern furnishings. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar or on the patio.

Meal arrangements: breakfast only
Facilities
- Small bar
- Courtyard
- Wifi
- Air conditioning
- Lift

Prices

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Prices for first-named hotel (£ per person based on 2 sharing)

Add-on price

Hotel Marquis de la Baume, 2 nights: 01 April 2025 - 31 October 2025 & 01 April 2026 - 31 October 2026

Start any day | End by latest date(s) shown above

Starting	Add on 2 nights *
1 Apr - 30 May 2025	from £215
31 May - 30 Jul 2025	from £250
31 Jul - 30 Sep 2025	from £215
1 - 29 Oct 2025	from £175
1 Apr - 30 May 2026	from £225
31 May - 30 Jul 2026	from £265
31 Jul - 30 Sep 2026	from £225
1 - 29 Oct 2026	from £185

* Final price is subject to change due to the customisable nature of our holidays. We will contact you to confirm the final price based on your selections.

Includes accommodation and meals as described. No travel is included as it is assumed that you are travelling via the city as part of your main Inntravel holiday.

If you are flying via a different airport and would like us to arrange connecting travel, please contact us for a quotation.

Getting to the city centre

This information is for guidance only; no travel is included in our prices and you should pay locally for your chosen option.

For more information about the airport, visit the Nîmes airport website.

Getting between Nimes airport and the city (15km):

Public transport	Approx. duration	Frequency
Bus	15 minutes	after every Ryanair arrival

Other options	Approx. duration	Approx. cost
Taxi	20 minutes	25€

Reviews

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Anon

26 September 2024

Highlight: The Walk of the Ancient Aqueduct for the variety, despite some difficulty with the notes

For anyone spending longer in Avignon we would definitely recommend walking over the river to Villeneuve-Les-Aviginon and visiting the sites there. We took the bus back.