Nimes, the Roman city, offers you its amphitheatre "The Arenas", its beautiful "Fountain gardens", the "Maison Carrée", and many well preserved ancient Roman vestiges. The streets reserved for the pedestrians bustle with numerous attractions and colourful markets.
Avignon offers its remparts,its medieval Palace of The Popes, its gardens and the famous broken Benezet Bridge, where as the song goes, "on y danse, on y danse".
Quite near, in the Luberon region, you'll find the friendly villagesof Gordes, with its prehistoric village of "Bories", Roussillon, with its ocre soil, L'Isle sur La Sorgue with its antiques dealers 'fair, and the clear waters of the much visited "Fontaine de Vaucluse" where the Italian poet Petrach spent most of his life.