Come and explore with me the ROMAN AQUADUCT ~ PONT DU GARD in FRANCE 🇫🇷 It is located in Vers-du-Pont and dates back to the first Century AD. Build on 3 levels, about 50 meter high and stretches 275 meter over the river Gardon. Source.
A true engineering masterpiece. We will walk around it today, check out the view points at the sides and even cross it a few times. So we can enjoy all the stunning views of this beautiful ancient bridge. It was a cloudy day as you can see and we luckily won’t catch any rain, it is a bit windy though.
As you could read in my last post I am/ was on the road again and I probably would reach home yesterday. As soon as I could post again I would… read when I have internet and electricity to do so. Guess what; here I am as you can see… back home writing this post for you to enjoy in between washing, gardening… tending to my inside plants and catching up on so many things. As I have been away for 6 weeks to southern France and was driving all the way north slowly. It is a lot of work in the next few days. I had some crazy adventures on the road while enjoying the #vanlife (very basic though as it is a working van and no campervan)
I truly had a blast… and I hope to do this more once I start rebuilding the van after I moved myself and the belongings. (maybe… as nothing is set in stone for me haha) I will move before the next winter. No, I haven’t found the next place/ spot yet. Still working on it. Soon more about all of this hehe.
With this post I’m joining in at the Wednesday Walk #challenge. That is hosted by @tattoodjay every week on Wednesday.
‼️Have a look: Here in the Wednesday Walk Community if you want to join in!… the community is run by @tattoodjay
Look at his last #wednesdaywalk post. It will tell you also the rules of joining in at the Wednesday walk posts 😁 come join us!
Today’s photographic selection will be of 29 PHOTOGRAPHS
Date : 5 MAY 2025
The Photographs in this post are taken with my iPhone.
I will follow the time stamps on them. So it looks like you are experiencing my adventures on this walk to #discover everything what I saw, like the little #details seen through my eyes.
Location of the PONT DU GARD in FRANCE we find on the following screenshots of Google Maps :
Zooming out you see its location in southern France.
More information about the bridge / aqueduct and its history you find on the following websites:
Unesco - Pont du Gard France
PontduGard own webiste!
Wikipedia Pont du Gard!
If you have time… read up on it.
Shall we start with our walk today. It is nice you are joining me.
After parking the car we walk towards the entrance and see a map from the area around the aqueduct. If you look closely you see the 2 viewpoints on each side of the pont du gard that are both on higher grounds.
We walk over the paths towards the bridge and suddenly see it around a corner. It towers out over the trees.
Talking about trees, next to the path we find this beautiful old olive tree.
Next to it this stone with more information of the tree that is from 1908. The diameter of the trunk is 5 meters. So beautiful.
We wander further over the paths towards the bridge and peek through some trees and bushes. We see a little bit more from the aqueduct now. Can’t wait to see it better.
We are very close by and take in the roman architecture. Trust me it is large…
We start walking over it and have these views to one side of the bridge.
Crossing towards the other side we see this view. So stunning…
I like the view towards the first side. The beautiful house hidden behind trees on the cliff rocks.
We can walk all the way to the other side, there is even a little restaurant located following the tree alley.
We follow a path up, climbing steps… towards one of the view points. Along the way we see the bridge very up close.
At the top of the steps there is a gate into one of the parts of the aqueduct. Guided tours will walk you through and the gate is closed when they are not there. I didn’t join, but the friendly ladies of the tour pointed me to some awesome views further afield.
Here I am on that view point. One can see the top of the bridge well.
Walking down the steps we have some great views. Yes, there were lots of tourists and even a lot of school kids on a trip. I couldn’t avoid them in my photos… hehe
I walk over the bridge again and zoom in a bit further on that house in the distance. While I was standing there I hear something…
Crossing the bridge towards the sounds. I see kids jumping into the very cold water of the river. Their school friends yelling at them to encourage haha.
Here a closer view… bbbrrrr to cold for me.
As I crossed I take in the view from this side of the bridge.
The tree alley towards the restaurant. There is also a cave located next to it, very shallow… so nothing spectacular to be honest. The real gem is the roman aqueduct.
On this side of the river there are several paths down to the river bed. As I walk down I take this capture.
The water of the river isn’t that high on this side. And we can walk over the rocks…
To get some awesome views of the bridge stretching all the way over the river.
Zooming in for details.
On top of the rocks we can see the house that was hidden better.
I take a few photographs of it. It is placed in such a stunning location, don’t you think?
My view wandering over a pathway at the tree alley towards. Slowly back to the parking lot again as we have seen the aqueduct from every direction while wandering around it and over it.
Next to the path half way back I find this (abandoned) house between bushes and behind a large fence. I think it is the one I saw several times during our walk.
I didn't see it walking towards the bridge the first time as the view is hidden. Peeking through the bushes and zooming out a bit more. This would make a lovely home. I am sure it has been or still is for maybe half of it. The right side is boarded up and looked not lived in.
We reached the car and say bye bye.
If you are ever in this area of France, do and check out this lovely place. So much to see… as the area is rather large and one can spends some hours wandering around it and taking it all in.
…and here I say that’s all for today’s post my friends.
Join me next time for more updates, adventures, #stories and photographs.
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Have a great day all!
Grtz Jackie
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