Selection of the most beautiful monuments in the Gard

Patrimoine défensif
30400 Villeneuve-lès-Avignon

Fort Saint-André is a 14th century medieval fortified enclosure in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, overlooking the Rhône and Avignon. Royal military masterpiece, he protected the border of the kingdom against the Papal States.

Château fort
30300 Beaucaire

Beaucaire Castle, an iconic medieval building, dominates the town of Beaucaire in Occitanie. Built on a hill at 80 meters above sea level, it bears witness to the turbulent history of this Rhodoan city, between Languedoc and Provence.

Mas
30700 Uzès

The Mas de Mayac, a former 15th–12th century monastery in Uzès (Gard), was a farm and residence of the Canons before becoming a national good. Its facades are classified.

Château fort
30150 Montfaucon

Montfaucon Castle, built in the 12th century in Montfaucon (Gard), is a triangular castle unique in France, overlooking the Rhône and restored in the 19th century in a Scottish style.

Architecture gothique flamboyant
30130 Pont-Saint-Esprit

The Saint-Saturnin church of Pont-Saint-Esprit is a late Gothic building of the 15th century, located in the Gard en Occitanie, marked by a remarkable portal and a turbulent history since the Middle Ages.

Eglise romane
30330 Cavillargues

The Hermitage Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Sépulcre is a 12th century Romanesque chapel, enlarged in the 19th century, located in the woods near Cavillargues in Occitanie, classified as a historical monument since 1981.

Rempart
30220 Aigues-Mortes

The walls of Aigues-Mortes, a 13th century fortified enclosure in Occitanie, protect this medieval city of Gard with 1640 m of walls flanked by 15 towers, a unique testimony of military architecture in a marshy environment.

Château fort
30210 Pouzilhac

Pouzilhac Castle, a 12th-century medieval building, stands in Pouzilhac in the Gard, combining Gothic elements and 19th-century changes in Occitanie.