Morning Brandade at Les Halles de Nîmes

Vintage postcard layout: central Nîmes amphitheater surrounded by circular vignettes of Maison Carrée, Tour Magne, Jardin des Fontaine, Temple de Diane, Porte d'Auguste, Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Castor cathedral, and Castellum divisorium with a warm aged-tone design.

Nîmes puts its Roman stone out front — the arena, the Maison Carrée, the Tour Magne on the hill — and those pieces earn the ticket. What keeps me longer is smaller: a covered market where the fish counter remembers a second visit, a canal-edged garden that cools the afternoon better than any museum café, … Read more