Montpellier.—A cheerful and prosperous city; new streets and wide boulevards—(1) Historic School of Medicine in former Episcopal Palace; (2) Musée Fabre contains very fine collection of pictures; (3) Cathedral dates from 1364, choir and other parts 1857; (4) Tour des Pins; (5) Porte du Peyrou, seventeenth century.
Lunel.—Small town, with a partially Romanesque church.
Aigues-Mortes.—In the Carmargue. A very remarkable medieval walled city, founded by St. Louis (IX.); fortifications built by Philippe-le-Hardi in thirteenth century.
Nîmes.—Has some of the finest Roman remains in France—(1) Amphitheatre; (2) Maison Carrée; (3) Porte d’Auguste; (4) Porte de France; (5) Roman baths and the Tour Magne; (6) Cathedral of St. Castor (eleventh century); (7) Pont-du-Gard, 14 miles north.
St. Gilles.—In the Carmargue. A decayed port, with a remarkable Romanesque church.
Arles.—A large town, with a history going back to the Greek occupation of the ports of Southern France—(1) Roman amphitheatre; (2) Greek theatre; (3) remains of Roman Forum; (4) Roman tower of La Trouille; (5) Museum in Church of St. Anne; (6) Cathedral of St. Trophime, with cloisters; (7) Avenue des Alyscamps, with stone sarcophagi; (8) and (9) Churches of St. Antoine and St. Honorat.
Salon.—A small town on the edge of the Crau; Churches of St. Michel (thirteenth century) and St. Laurent (fourteenth century); also château of same date as the latter.
Pélissanne.—A small town, with a church and clock-tower, both of the sixteenth century; also ruins of a château of the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
St. Cannat.—See Section XIX.
Montpellier does not boast many antiquities, but it has some spacious promenades and boulevards which give a dignity and charm to the city. Hare, writing before some of the more modern streets had assumed their present appearance, says: