Talk:Nîmes

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Nemausus in your article derives from NILE.

The contemporary symbol shield of Nîmes, a crocodile chained to a palm tree with the inscription 'COLNEM' or short version of 'Colonia Nemausus', is a reference to the colony of legion veterans from Caesar's Nile campaigns. At the end of fifteen years of soldieering, the veterans were given plots of land to cultivate on the plain of Nîmes.

If you go to the 'Jardins de la Fontaine' in the center of Nîmes, you can clamber up its watchtower that oversees the plain...The French Foreign Legion has one of its regiment, the 2e Régiment Etranger d'Infanterie, sited near the town center in a Napoleonic barracks since 1983...

New articles needed?

The Arena is definitely worth an article of its own, possibly also Tour Magne. Anyone able to do it? If not, I will try but it may take some time. Emeraude 09:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

NImes France

IT IS PRETTY —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.159.6.98 (talk) 17:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Illustration of Pont du Gard

I have problems with including am image of a monument that is actually located 20 kilometres away. It gives the impression to a user that it is visitable on foot, when in reality it is 0ne/two exits on the Autoroute (exit 23) Remoulin. This is not helped by using an image that does not have a geotag. Surely the amphitheatre is a better image to show the roman settlement.

There is a Commons category

note the spelling i-circumflex where the images can be found. (I'll try to add geotags).

I have a further problem- that the name suggests that Nîmes is on the Gard/Gardons where of course it is lacking a major river. ClemRutter (talk) 11:44, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Maybe. But potential visitors will recognise the aqueduct immediately and then associate it with Nimes. If you have a better image then use it! Peterlewis (talk) 11:58, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

I have geotagged 14+ images from Category:Pont du Gard- they are all rather similar- the clue to location is the shadow, and the missing bit on the the third storey where one used to access the water conduit- this is on the north west bank. However the Pont du Gard is not in Nîmes, it is between Remoulins and Uzès. ClemRutter (talk) 14:03, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Image

Not an expert on images, but I think the map is wrong. Anon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.1.40.105 (talk) 05:01, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Standards of Notability, Nimes in Popular Culture, Volkerball, etc.

I'm taking out the reference to a rock-group's DVD in the Sights section. Somehow, in the thousands of years of history of this town and its monuments, it seems really inappropriate and non-notable. Many of the Roman amphitheaters in Provence have lots of concerts and cultural events in them every summer. If we start adding them to the descriptions of these monuments, we will trivialize the whole project. Jjshapiro (talk) 19:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

pronunciation

there should be an IPA pronunciation of the city's name at the beginning of the article... I don't speak French or i'd do it myself 128.255.5.119 (talk) 18:12, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

File Format Problem

This article refuses to load in FireFox 3.0.3. Got the following error:
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Firefox can't find the file at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimes.
It loads fine in Internet Explorer 7. MacMcF (talk) 21:25, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Fourth to Thirteenth Centuries

The first sentence of this section reads, "After the Gallo-Roman period, in the days of invasion and decadence, the Christian Church, already established in Gaul since the 1st century AD, appeared be the last refuge open to civilization. Remarkably organized and directed by men of great worth, it took an increasingly important place in the march of time." Who were these men, and why were they "of great worth"?? What was so remarkable about their organizational abilities? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lily20 (talk • contribs) 20:04, 14 December 2009 (UTC)