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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.
Nîmes City Add-On. 2 nights
Nîmes City Add-On. 2 nights
 

Holiday information

 

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.
 
Gallery
 

Sightseeing

  • 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
 
Prices
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  • Hotel Marquis de la Baume, 2 nights: 01 April - 31 October 2019

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

    Starting Add on 2 nights Single supplement
    1 April - 30 May £150 £126
    31 May - 31 August £188 £162
    1 September - 15 October £150 £126
    16 - 29 October £126 £100

    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.

    Getting between Nimes airport and the city (15km):
    •Bus: 15-minute journey, after every Ryanair arrival (journey takes 30 minutes on return)
    •Taxi: 20-minute journey
    More information on Nîmes airport >

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

  • Room upgrades (£ per person per night)

    Hotel Marquis de la Baume
    Superior: 01 Apr - 31 Oct 2019 £13

    Extra nights (£ per person per night) in a double or single room

    Hotel Marquis de la Baume (B&B) Double room Single room
    01 Apr - 30 May 2019 £67 £122
    31 May - 31 Aug 2019 £83 £155
    01 Sep - 15 Oct 2019 £67 £122
    16 Oct - 31 Oct 2019 £55 £99
What is included
  • 2 nights
  • 2 breakfasts
  • street plan
  • notes for a self-guided city walking tour
 
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