WHAT DID THE ROMANS EVER DO FOR NIMES? I explore the most *ROMAN* city outside of Italy. 

The preservation of several Roman monuments is explained both by the fact that many of these monuments were reused perpetually since Roman times which prevented them from being transformed into a stone quarry and that Nîmes proud of their heritage Roman ensured its preservation throughout the centuries. Thus, little is known but the Roman amphitheatre inaugurated in 121 by the"Emperor Hadrian will be devoted to circus games barely 250 years but will be used for more than 700 years as a military fortress since the time of the Visigoths in the 5th century who succeeded the Romans after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and incorporated Nimes and its region in their kingdom of Spain until 1391 when the king of France Charles VI visiting Nimes in 1389 judging the castle of the arenas too dilapidated decided to build a new royal castle on the "location of the current gate Augustus so that the royal garrison which occupied the fortress of the amphitheatre since the annexation of the city of Nîmes to the kingdom of France in 1229 left the amphitheatre to settle in the new castle in 1391. , Thus the fortress of the amphitheatre underwent several sieges from the Frankish kings successors of Clovis , the Visigoth king of Spain Wamba in 672 came from his capital Toledo to subdue his Nîmes subjects in rebellion, the Frankish leader Charles Martel in 737, or Vikings landed in the Camargue in 859 or Hungarians from the Rhone Valley in 920;. The castle of the arenas was then the residence of the viscounts of Nîmes vassals of the count of Toulouse surrounded by their guard called The knights of the Arenas and died in the fortress of the amphitheatre the count of Toulouse Raymond V in 1194 . Became the seat of the royal garrison of Nîmes in 1229 until 1391, the kings of France visited Nîmes from King Saint Louis in 1248 came to supervise the construction of the port of Aigues Mortes to embark for the crusade in Egypt until"'to the King of France Charles VI in 1389.

Many thanks ;-)

It's been there for thousands of years

Le bleu de Nimes a blue tent canvas that Levi Strauss made into riveted jeans hence denim jeans?

Non la source de Perrier est à Vergeze ce n'est pas celle qui circulait dans le pont du Gard celle ci venait d'Uzes

Yes, it was the same Roman emperor who reigned from 138 to 161 at the time of the pax romana, the period of the apogee of the Roman Empire when it reached its maximum extension on the Scottish border, the Danube and the Euphrates, the empire is prosperous and in peace, taxes are falling .Although Antonine was born in Italy, Antonine is the son and grandson of Consul and Senator of Nîmes from where his statue in Nîmes which is called the city of the Antonins, because it is the cradle of the imperial dynasty. The daughter of Antonin marrying Emperor Marcus Aurelius successor of the latter and their son Commodus was the last of the Antonine dynasty to reign over Rome, knowing that the accession to the imperial throne of Antoninus will be favored by the Empress Plotine born in Nimes and wife of the Roman emperor Trajan who allowed Hadrian, who is said to have been the mistress of the throne after the death of Trajan, to be succeeded by a man from his Nimes clan, Antonin. It was Emperor Hadrian who visited the "Empress Plotine in Nîmes in 122 inaugurated by games the amphitheatre of Nîmes whose construction had been started in 79 at the time of the inauguration of the Colosseum of Rome on the model on which it is built but in better state of conservation (it is the best preserved of the amphitheatres listed in the world so that we fear to go around the galleries as the Romans did, and so much so that a few years ago the municipality of Rome used the amphitheatre of Nîmes in its advertising campaign for the Italian capital, because in better condition than the Colosseum of Rome, which created a scandal).Indeed, the Gallic tribe of the region of Nîmes loyal ally of Julius Caesar and his nephew Octavian became the Roman emperor Augustus to whom it provides troops to defeat his rival Mark Antony and the queen of Egypt Cleopatra will be rewarded by Augustus who not only endowed the city of a gigantic enclosure ( the largest of Gaul) and an aqueduct, but the inhabitants of Nîmes received the privilege of"being admitted as full Roman citizens so that the city was directly administered by the"emperor from Rome and no longer dependent on the capital of the Narbonne Province,so that the inhabitants of Nîmes did not pay tributes and had the right to have senators representing them in the Senate of Rome and to take up the functions of directors as consuls or tribunes or prefects reserved until then to the Italians alone, which explains the career of the father and grandfather of the "emperor Antonin who were born in Nimes.

Very popular in south west France Beziers still thrives !😢

No bulls were harmed in the making of this vlog ; one Scotsman however was roasted .

Picasso used to draw bulls here , Van Gogh also spent some time here !

It reminded me of the Dubai visit. That was a complete scorcher as well.

Er, probably the cheap Ryanair flight helped Scott here 😅