LANDSCAPES AND

LOCAL HERITAGE

Along the Stevenson Trail (the end)

SAINT-JEAN-DU-GARD

• This place deserves a special attention in our slideshow.

• It is situated in another « département »: « the Gard », which takes its name from the river that flows there.

• The whole « département was a Roman province before and long after Jesus-Christ, therefore there are many Roman remains in this region.

• The climate is very mild in winter, but very hot in summer; hence a very different vegetation, compared with the one we can see in « Lozère ».

• We invite you to pay a visit to « The Bambouseraie», for sure, the garden of Eden on earth!

Saint-Jean-du-Gard -Stevenson arrived there on 3rd October 1878.

-He walked for 12 days, with his She-Donkey.

-This town was influenced by Protestantism in the 16th Century and became an important place for “the Camisards’” resistance in 1702.

- “The Camisards” is the name given to those riotists who refused to be converted to Catholicism.

- Long before and after Jesus-Christ the Romans occupied this place and throughout the whole “départment.”

- They left many remains among which “The Pont du Gard”, an impressive acqueduct that carried water from the spring to Nîmes, a large city then.It took 15 years to build.

- Nowadays there are uphill car races in those narrow, winding roads of the Cévennes hills.

the Roman Acqueduct

The river Gardon

Built about 50 A.D.

“La Bambouseraie”• It is a bamboo

forest, unique in the world.

• This botanic garden was created in the mid 19th century.

• The Japanese gardens and the exotic vegetation blossom in this Mediterranean climate.

• A steam train takes the visitors from Saint-Jean-du-Gard to ”La Bambouseraie”.

« LA BAMBOUSERAIE »