Eductour 3 - Day 1 : Nîmes- Tourism in Cevennes

08:45am Meet in your hotel lobby for a guided tour of the city, a sustainable destination by definition, as it can be explored entirely on foot.

 Visit to the Arènes de Nîmes, built at the end of the 1st century AD and the best-preserved amphitheater of the Roman era.

 09:45am Technical tour of the Hotel Margaret Chouleur, an elegant 4* boutique hotel in the heart of the city.

 10:30am Continue your tour of the historic center, with its squares, fountains, facades and courtyards of private mansions...

 Stop at Les Halles, the city's covered market and the gourmet heart of Nîmes.

 11am Then a stop at the Place de la Maison Carrée, an exceptionally well-preserved 1st-century Roman temple and UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023, opposite the “temple of modernity”, the Musée d'art contemporain et médiathèque Carré d'Art -Jean Bousquet.

 11:30am Technical tour of the Maison Albar Imperator hotel, one of the city's most emblematic 5* hotels, followed by lunch at Brasserie L'impé.

 1:45 pm : Departure by bus for the « Vallée des Gardons. »

2.30 - 4.00 pm: discovery of the « Bambouseraie des Cévennes »

More than 1,000 varieties of bamboo, rare flowers, remarkable trees and plants are revealed for a magical journey to the heart of nature in the Cévennes Gardoises.

4:30 - 6:00 pm : private tour of Maison Rouge - Cévennes Valleys Museum

Located in the small authentic village of Saint-Jean-du-Gard,  Maison Rouge is a museum dedicated to the identity of the Cévennes housed in the last spinning mill to close in France, in 1965.

6:30 pm : check in to your hotel in Saint Jean du Gard, Les Bellugues.

8.00 pm: dinner in Saint Jean du Gard in an old 17th-century stagecoach house frequented by Robert Louis Stevenson at the end of his journey through the Cévennes.