Location: Aigues-Mortes in France
Nearest Airport:
Montpellier at 30
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Nearest Train:
Nimes at 30
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Nearest Motorway:
Aigues Mortes at 2
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Nearest Beach:
beach at 3.0
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Car: necessary
A lone sturdy sentinel set among the salt marshes of the Camargue, Aigues Mortes looks today much as it did when it was completed around 1300. Louis IX set sail on his Crusade under the shadow of Tour de Constance. The Camargue is one of Europe's major wetland regions and natural history sites. Numerous sea birds and wildfowl occupy the region, among them flocks of greater flamingoes. Native white horses and black bulls roam the region guarded by the regions cowboys (gardians). The Roman cities of Nimes and Arles are nearby with their magnificent Roman amphitheatres which are still used today for bull fights.