Some 37km from Nîmes, near the start of the Pont du Gard and served by daily buses from Nîmes, UZÈS is a lovely old town perched on a hill above the River Alzon. Half a dozen medieval towers - the most fetching is the windowed Pisa-like Tour Fenestrelle , tacked onto the much later cathedral - rise above its tiled roofs and narrow lanes of Renaissance and Neoclassical houses, the residences of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century local bourgeoisie, who ... [More]