In the north of Nimes, around Uzès, the city with the three turns, exists a country of garrigues, hills and plains. The elements, the men, the stories still passed and pass while leaving their traces. There is not the best sees to come in Uzès, that it is while leaving the A9 motorway, the means more pressed, it is then right beside a secret madness of XVIIIème, the small castle of the Baron de Castille who appartien today with an antique dealer. A temple and a cemetery also border the road of Uzès. Right before you will pass not far from the bridge of Gard, with a few kilometers only of Uzès.

If you decide to leave more to north, on A7, it agrees to borrow the route starting from the Bollène exit, then Pont St Spirit, Bagnols-on-Cèze and finally Uzès. The road is (except motorway) is longer but dépaysante: landscapes of vineyards alternate with fields of lavender and large alleys of plane trees in the plains, but also the landscapes of hills and garrigues point out very close Provence.

The place of the market to grasses is the very animated heart of the Escutcheon of Uzès. It is there that this holds twice per week, Wednesday and saturdays one of the most beautiful provencaux markets of France. The house is really with two steps and you will also be able will seek the morning your crescents in the best bakery of the city, or will taste an excellent coffee with the one of the inombrables terraces of the place or on the “boulevard”.

But Uzès it is also a rich and plentiful campaign qualified by some of “French Tuscany” with incredible landscapes to cut the breath and excursions, villages in villages, on a completely safeguarded sector. Thus it goes from there from the village of potters of St Quentin the Pottery where you can initiate yourselves with this art, or the village of Argiliers and its vestiges, on the road of the Bridge of Gard.

But let us return in Uzès: that you like the inheritance of 17th and 18th, the antique dealers, or preferred idleness, or shopping or the excursions, there is extremely to make the possibilities so much are rich, music, Festival, this small city with the charm of a safeguarded village offers extraordinary possibilities and will be able to carry you with the liking of the times by one charms and the kindness of its inhabitants.

Of course, one knows the coastal ones of Nimes, but all the back country has a rich soil of surprised and wines of appelation which it will be advisable to discover in the excellent restaurants of the Escutcheon. It is finally a city in charge with history and life of which it is façile to fall in love.