Eductour 3 - Day 1 : Tour Nîmes- Tourism in Cevennes

After breakfast, check-out from the C Suites Hotel with your luggage

8:45 am 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.

 9:00 am Visit to the Arènes de Nîmes, built at the end of the 1st century AD and the best-preserved amphitheater of the Roman era.

 9:45am Technical tour of the Hotel Margaret Chouleur, an elegant 4* boutique hotel in the heart of the city.

 10:30 am 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.

 11:00 am Stop at the square of the Maison Carrée, an exceptionally well-preserved 1st-century Roman temple listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023.

 11:30 am 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 pm - 3:30 pm: discovery of the Bambouseraie des Cévennes

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

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 2*.

8.00 pm Restaurant l'Oronge: dinner in Saint-Jean-du-Gard in a former 17th-century stagecoach house frequented by Robert Louis Stevenson at the end of his journey through the Cévennes.

Overnight stay at Saint-Jean-du-Gard