Thank you for such an informative and beautifully filmed video of Nimes.

@Barnyz

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for watching, im happy the video was useful :)

Nimes looks really great, very interesting city to visit and explore👌👌thanks a lot for a great travel guide, have a nice day my friend

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much D&B for the kind comment, yep it's a very interesting city with lots to see. Have a super Sunday, cheers from barnyz

Beautiful Nimes! Well done, my friend 👍. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your Easter weekend 😀.

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

thank you very much Haswell for the kind comment 👍👍👍 Happy Easter to you! 👍👍👍

Hi Barnyz, as usual a very well done comprehensive guide. Nimes looks a lot like Italian cities due to the influence of the Roman Empire.

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Giuseppe :) yes very much like an Italian city with so many Roman buildings. I visited Brescia recently and it reminded me a little of that city. Have an excellent Sunday cheers from barnyz

Hello,dear Barnyz! Nimes is one of the most beautiful cities in France, in my opinion. Rich in history and beauty. Visited it a lot of thime ago , but I remember the enchant of this city. Thanks for these memories! A so well presented and realized content, as always. A pleasure to watch. A huge like and happy week! Renata

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

thank you very much Renata, its a wonderful city indeed. Have a superb week, cheers from barnyz

@renatalimarzi

Жыл бұрын

@@Barnyz THANKS from the heart! Ciao!

Wow, Nîmes has a lot of amazing sites to explore. The Roman sites look amazing, but the waterways and garden fountains also look incredibly beautiful. Excellent video my friend (beautiful images and good information). We love France and your video just reaffirms our feelings for this country. Take care guys. ✌️ Cheers. 🍻🍻

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks as always. I'm also a big fan of France and had this city on my list for a long time, so super happy I finally got to visit. Have an ace Sunday, cheers from barnyz

What a stunning historical sigh to start the video, how amazing were the Romans, with the Arena being another prime example. The museum look to be a must see, and the same for the Maison carree and did not expect to see so much Roman architecture in Nimes and what a find the church of St Paul was, what a stunning internal dome that was, cheers Alan

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Alan as always. The Romans were really amazing builders, lucky us they built some cool stuff in the UK as well! Have a great weekend cheers from barnyz

@domitiusafer

Жыл бұрын

Despite its Romano-Byzantine style, the church of Saint Paul was built at the end of the 19th century like all the churches of Nîmes, with the exception of the cathedral of Notre Dame and Saint Castor, for the Protestant rulers of the city between 1561 and 1629 during the wars of religion with the Catholics who bloodied France at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century, destroyed all the Catholic religious buildings of the city, except for the Romanesque cathedral built in the 11th century because of its bell tower used for observation purposes. St Paul’s Church has a recent history, the only notable event of which was the wedding in 1985 of the star presenter of the French television news channel TF1, in the presence of the entire French jet set and which gave rise to a memorable and moving interpretation of the Ave Maria during the wedding ceremony by the singer Charles Aznavour. But the place on which the church of Saint Paul was built has a more interesting history because it was the monastery where Saint Francis of Assisi stayed in 1213, then in the footsteps of the Franciscan saint, the king of France Saint Louis in 1248 who was staying in Nîmes while waiting for the construction of the port of Aigues Mortes in view of his embarkation for the crusade towards Egypt. In the extension of the church to the Questel square named after the architect who built the church Saint Paul, was the garden of the monastery where the interview took place in May 1704 between on the one hand the marshal of Villars who commanded the army of the king of France Louis XIV against the Protestant camisards in revolt against the king after the prohibition of their religion, and one of the leaders of the Camisards Jean Cavalier who came to make his submission, but will be disavowed by the other Camisards chiefs who will continue the fight until 1710, being successively captured and executed or killed in combat. Cavalier left France and then commanded in Spain a regime composed of his French Protestant men in the English army against the army of King Louis XIV.Seriously wounded in the head during the battle of Almanza in 1707, he was appointed by the King of England, governor of the Island of Jersey, and died in exile in London in the Chelsea district where his home still exists. The monastery was rebuilt in the 17th century and then destroyed again by the revolutionaries in 1793. The monastery was built outside the medieval enclosure of the city of Nîmes whose ditches are now covered by the boulevards that surround the city center, in this case the boulevard Victor Hugo; Moreover, in front of the church Saint Paul on the other side of the boulevard are still visible at the entrance of the rue de la Madeleine, the gonds of one of the gates of the medieval enclosure. Thus the Romanesque cathedral of Notre Dame de Saint Castor consecrated on July 6, 1096 by Pope Urban II who came to preach the 1st Crusade and the army of the Crusaders departing for the Holy Land, because little known fact it is in front of the Cathedral of Nîmes that gathered"Army of the Crusaders commanded by the Count of Toulouse Raymond IV of Saint Gilles who was going to seize the citadel of Jerusalem on 15 July 1099, the most powerful lord of the crusade, who will be ousted from the throne of the new royal kingdom of Jerusalem in favour of Godefroi de Bouillon, and will then go on to conquer the county of Tripoli (now Lebanon) marking the departure of the French presence in this region. One of the stained-glass windows of the cathedral is the only existing representation of this now forgotten but important historical figure. The cathedral has a remarkable Romanesque frieze miraculously preserved despite the degradation committed by Protestants during the wars of religion with the Catholics who bloodied France and the city in the 16th century and has been home to since 1805, the tomb of the cardinal of Bernis, minister of foreign affairs of the king of France Louis XV and friend of Casanova whose religious mistresses he shared when he was ambassador of France to Venice and who employed Casanova as a spy when he took refuge in France after his escape from the Plombs prison in Venice . The oldest religious building of Nimes still visible is the Romanesque cathedral of Notre Dame de Saint Castor consecrated on July 6, 1096 by Pope Urban II who came to preach the 1st Crusade and the army of the Crusaders departing for the Holy Land, because little known fact it is in front of the Cathedral of Nîmes that gathered"Army of the Crusaders commanded by the Count of Toulouse Raymond IV of Saint Gilles who was going to seize the citadel of Jerusalem on 15 July 1099, the most powerful lord of the crusade, who will be ousted from the throne of the new royal kingdom of Jerusalem in favour of Godefroi de Bouillon, and will then go on to conquer the county of Tripoli (now Lebanon) marking the departure of the French presence in this region. One of the stained-glass windows of the cathedral is the only existing representation of this now forgotten but important historical figure. The cathedral has a remarkable Romanesque frieze miraculously preserved despite the degradation committed by Protestants during the wars of religion with the Catholics who bloodied France and the city in the 16th century and has been home to since 1805, the tomb of the cardinal of Bernis, minister of foreign affairs of the king of France Louis XV and friend of Casanova whose religious mistresses he shared when he was ambassador of France to Venice and who employed Casanova as a spy when he took refuge in France after his escape from the Plombs prison in Venice

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

@domitiusafer thank you for the info. I had difficulty finding reliable information on the churches when I was researching the video, so it's good to read more about them 👍👍👍

@domitiusafer

Жыл бұрын

@@Barnyz Yes, few people know that the Notre Dame de Saint Castor Cathedral was the starting point for the army of the 1st Crusade, which would then conquer Jerusalem. Nîmes was therefore a few days in July 1096 given the presence of the pope and this event the capital of Christianity.the wars of religions between 1561 and 1629 and revolutionary terror between 1791 and 1795 led to the destruction of almost all the oldest religious buildings in Nimes, except the 11th century cathedral, so that it is not the churches built in the 19th century that are interesting in themselves but the history of the places on which they were built or the details of their construction. Thus, the church Sainte Perpetue was built on the site of an old convent used during the revolutionary terror as a prison because located next to the Esplanade usual place in the history of public executions in Nîmes and where was the scaffold of the guillotine, the revolutionary court located at the site of the current court on the same esplanade. The aim was to speed up executions after death sentences and to limit the risk of escape by limiting the duration of transport of prisoners. The monumental marble fountain on the Place de l'Esplanade at the beginning of the report called Fontaine Pradier was made by the Swiss sculptor James Pradier from a Protestant Nîmoise family who had fled to Switzerland during the suppression of Protestant worship by King Louis XIV in 1685.This statue had been commissioned by the royalist municipality during the reign of King Louis Philippe in homage to the prime minister of this Protestant king François Guizot, born in Nîmes and whose father had during the revolutionary terror in 1794 been guillotined at this site for opposing Robespierre. The statue was erected on the site of the guillotine during the French Revolution because the Esplanade was traditionally the site of public executions in Nimes, where before the guillotine stood the scaffold of the wheel or the pyre where many Protestants condemned to be beaten alive or burned were executed especially during the war of the Camisards raised between 1702 and 1710 against king Louis XIV . The model of the statue was Juliette Drouet, then companion of the sculptor of whom she had a child and who later became the mistress of the French writer Victor Hugo.Nîmes during the revolutionary terror was under the authority of Joseph Courbis, a supporter of Robespierre, who arrested after the fall of Robespierre on 27 July 1794 in Paris, He was assassinated in his cell at the Vauban citadel on August 2, 1794 by the crowd who had stormed the citadel, which had been transformed into a prison. The game of Courbis was to bet money to find out if the head of the guillotined person would fall into the basket intended to collect it or next to it. Ironically, the statue was inaugurated in 1851 during the Second Republic that overthrew King Louis-Philippe and his Prime Minister Guizot in 1848.The Church of Saint Baudile should have been built by the brilliant Nîmes architect Henri Jacques Esperandieu who built the Notre Dame de la Major cathedral and the Longchamp palace in Marseille, but being Protestant, his project was rejected by the newly elected Catholic royalist municipality after the fall of Napoleon III. The royalist mayor of the city Blanchard was then dismissed by the republican government in 1880 for refusing to celebrate the first national holiday of July 14,decreed in 1879 as the date of the French national holiday.Blanchard refused to celebrate July 14 on the ground that was celebrated the day of the capture of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 which had caused French victims, notably royalists, which was incorrect because the national holiday of July 14, contrary to popular belief, does not celebrate the capture of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, but the feast of the Federation organized in Paris on the field of Mars (current location of the Eiffel Tower from where the choice to build on this site the Eiffel Tower on the occasion of the world exhibition of 1889 celebrating the centenary of the French Revolution of 1789) On July 14, 1790, to celebrate the first anniversary of the capture of the Bastille, this ecumenical feast brought together the royal family, the elected representatives and the people of Paris, hence the choice of this date representing the French nation gathered in all its components.

@domitiusafer

Жыл бұрын

@@Barnyz Nîmes is one of the few cities in France with Paris, Lyon and Arles to have monuments tracing its rich and tormented history from antiquity to the present day and it its Roman monuments in better state of conservation than those of Paris, Lyon or Arles (and even in Rome to such an extent that the municipality of Rome a few years ago used the view of the amphitheatre of Nimes better preserved with its 2nd floor totally intact what is unique for monuments of this type, instead and place of the Colosseum what made scandal) For while the Nîmes were often violently torn apart for religious and political reasons, the preservation of ancient Roman monuments was often their only common trait of union, so that they were preserved through their constant use. Thus the amphitheatre was transformed into a castle by the Visigoths in the 6th century AD and remained so until"in 1391 (the two arcades of the 2nd floor clogged with dead ones are the only remains of this period), that is 800 years, much more than its use for the Roman circus games which lasted only 300 years until"In 1813, the town returned to its original location, where the bull races took place, the proceeds of which were used for the restoration and maintenance of the monument, until the 1920s, when the Ministry of Fine Arts assumed the costs of"Maintenance of the monument. The excellent state of conservation of the city’s Roman monuments tends to obscure its long, rich and exciting history after the"Roman antiquity, so that most passing people tend to visit only the most spectacular Roman monuments, while the passerby who passes through the city, especially the old centre, ignores the many important historical events that took place there and follows the itinerary of some famous historical figures.

dein video ist der grund, warum meine nächste reise nach nimes geht :) Danke

@Barnyz

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. I hope you have fun in Nimes! Danke

@virtual_travel_worldwide

9 ай бұрын

@@Barnyz danke:) Ja ich bin zu 1000% sicher, dass es mir dort sehr gefallen wird :)

Wow 😮Nimes such a beautiful and historical city😍fantastic video, wonderful filming and editing 👏🏻 very enjoyable 🤗thanks for your informative tour guide BZ👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much PT 😍😍😍

We have been to Nîmes before in 2006 it was such a wonderful visit . We had seen "The colosseum" and had walked up to "The Maison Carré "and "Les portes d’Auguste "but we were there only a few hours .You sure had more time I think and it was so nice to see these places again and all the others you have been . At 5:23 I have used the same music in one of our Arches National park video but the one with words ( Called " The Beauty lives in me " I think from Epedemic Sound . Your night shots are beautiful also ! Beautiful video Barnyz well explained 👌👏👍😉 Have a great week Serge H&S 👩‍❤️‍👨🌈🇨🇦

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you as always. Happy hear you have visited Nimes and also enjoyed it. Yeah i like that music a lot, I think it's the second time ive used it. Have a fab week cheers from barnyz

So Beautiful 🔄⭕🔄, my dear friend

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much 👍👍👍

It's great to see such a wonderful and fantastic place.

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you JC Media :)

Thank you for the beautiful video. As a french person living in Paris, Nîmes is one of my favourite town in France. Mix of roman, XVII, XVIII e centuries, with Provence flavor (even if Nîmes is not historicaly speaking, in Provence but "at the door"), and spanish influence too. And "porte de la Camargue"! A very specific and amazing place to discover...

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

thank you very much for the wonderful comment. I had dreamed of visiting Nimes for many years and it did not disappoint me. On the same trip I also visited other places in Provence and they were also wonderful. I did not go to porte de la Camargue so maybe thats one for another trip. :)

What a beautiful city Barnyz I love the parts you filmed in the evening, the colouring is awesome. It just looks like a perfect place to explore and so quiet during your visit.

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊😊😊 i really enjoy night shots which is one of the reasons I prefer to travel in winter so I don't need to wait to long for sunsets and blue hours 👍👍👍

Very nice and informative video 👍

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much 👍👍👍

Very nice and informative video. Thanks a lot for a great travel guide.

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

thank you very much :)

all the locations look amazing, thanks for sharing.

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

thank you for watching

Amazing views from Nimes.

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much 👍👍👍

I love the cinematic footage and the beautiful highlights of the city, I specially loved the Magne Tower and the magnificent views from there. Great video as always my friend 😊👍

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you CP4k, it's a really lovely little city. Have a great week cheers from barnyz

Hi Barnyz. Nimes looks fantastic. So much Roman buildings. It remembered me on the German Roman city Trier. Beautiful parks. Great video.👍

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much Jack. I've never been to Trier but hope to one day 👍👍👍

Great photography

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Matthew 👍👍👍

Great video!

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jessy :)

outstanding 👍🌄💯

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍👍👍

Thank you for another beautiful and informative video trip BarnyZ

@Barnyz

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much gb 👍👍👍

Bonjour, merci de votre video de qualite sur ma ville mais oui vous avez oublié un monument romain important, le castellum divisorium, c'est à dire le collecteur d''eau qui recevait l'eau qui venait de la source d'eure à UZES via le PONT DU GARD et qui distribuait l'eau dans les differents quartiers et domus de la ville antique, il n'y a que 2 exemplaires au monde qui ont été conservés, NIMES et POMPEI, si vous revenez à NIMES allez le voir et je sais que vous etes anglais mais nimes est tellement plus belle sous le soleil ! un NIMOIS

@Barnyz

24 күн бұрын

Bonjour et merci d'avoir regardé. J'utilise Google Traduction. Je regrette de ne pas avoir visité cet endroit. C'était sur ma liste mais j'ai manqué de temps. Un jour j'y retournerai car j'ai aussi envie de visiter le Pont du Gard et oui, j'espère visiter un jour avec un temps meilleur :) Hello and thank you for watching. I am using google translate. I regret I did not visit that location. It was on my list but I ran out of time. One day I will return as I also want to visit the Pont du Gard and yes I hope to visit with better weather one day

The Gregorian calendar is a truly impressive thing and while I'm not particularly religious, I do think as it was Pope Gregory XIII who devised it, one should continue to use BC and AD, the new politically correct nomenclature is a denial of the calendar's origin and simply makes no sense. I've heard worse French pronunciation by the way.

@Barnyz

23 күн бұрын

thanks for watching and sorry for my French :) I honestly had not given a seconds thought to the origins of the BC/AD calendar definitions. When I was researching the locations I used the same date format as the sources I was looking at (wiki etc)