Gladiators: heroes of the Colosseum, Gladiateurs, héros du Colisée, at the Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes, France In my usual not-very-efficient way, I’m writing about an exhibition which has now closed. It was, however, a very neat and well thought out exhibition at the Musée de la Romanité about gladiators in the Roman world, possibly because it’s been on a world tour…
Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes, France In June 2018, the new Musée de la Romanité opened up in Nîmes. The news was all over the media and they generated much hype which I, as a Roman fan, was surprised but very happy to see. I was therefore doubly pleased that Nîmes was on my list of cities to visit in…
Nîmes, France Nîmes is a very elegant, confident little French town – probably the classiest that I visited on my summer trip. It has a great ‘French’ feeling, with higgledy-piggledy roads, each as charming as the last, and each pulling you in to be explored. The problem was that it was very hot when we visited, and I’m not very…
Arena of Nîmes, Arènes de Nîmes, Nîmes, France One of the finest surviving amphitheatres from the Roman world, the Arena, as it’s called locally, is an astonishing structure. If you have been lucky enough to have seen the Colosseum in Rome, then you’ll see similarities: they are both grand, yet quite dinky, they are both insanely photogenic and they both help…