Uzes France Village Courtyard Editorial Image

Afternoon sun creates vivid pastel colors on the buildings surrounding the village center in Uzes, France. Uzès was a small Gallo-Roman settlement. The town lies at the source of the Alzon river, at Fontaine d`Eure, from where a Roman aqueduct was built in the first century BC, to supply water to the local city of Nîmes, 50 kilometres 31 miles away. The most famous stretch of the aqueduct is the Pont du Gard, now a World Heritage site, which carried fresh water over splendid arches across the river Gardon. Tourists generally stop in Uzes for a meal before heading to Ponte du Gard.