Historical guided tour

Name: Historical guided tour
Start: 2024-06-01T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-02T12:30:00+02:00
Location: Jardins de la Fontaine

The Gardens of the Fountain otherwise

1 and 2 JunePassed

Conditions

Free. Free admission. Meet at the main entrance.

©mairie de Nîmes

The Gardens of the Fountain otherwise

Change your perspective on this remarkable garden. Rediscover its heritage, architecture and the nature that surrounds you. With Sophie Wildbolz, guide-lecturer, walk the alleys to capture the views and perspectives of this garden created in the eighteenth century on the model of the great classical gardens.
Service Valorisation and diffusion of the heritage of the City of Nîmes. Saturday and Sunday at 10:30, duration 2h

About the location

Jardins de la Fontaine

26 Quai de la Fontaine, 30900 Nîmes

Gard
Occitanie

Public gardens created in the XVIIIth century by Jacques Philippe Mareschal, military engineer of the king Louis XV, on the location of a sanctuary of the roman time. Compound(Made up) of two distinct environmental spaces: French-style classic garden centered on the founding source(spring) of the city and romantic garden done up in the XIXth century on the slopes of the Mount-rider. The double staircase, the channel(canal) of the Quay(Platform) of the Fountain, the channels(canals) of regulation supplement architecture. Roman monuments (Diana's temple, tour(tower,ballot) Hurries, pond of the source(spring)) and furniture of vases(muds) and statues. Standing paths of pines, of chestnut trees of India and of cedars. Many Mediterranean plants.
Open all year long.