WGard is a department in Southern France, located in the region of Occitanie. It had a population of 742,006 as of 2016; its prefecture is Nîmes. The department is named after the Gardon River; the Occitan name of the river, Gard, has been replacing the French name in recent decades, both administratively and among French speakers.
WCamisards were Huguenots of the rugged and isolated Cévennes region and the neighbouring Vaunage in southern France. In the early 1700s, they raised a resistance against the persecutions which followed Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, making Protestantism illegal. The Camisards operated throughout the mainly Protestant Cévennes and Vaunage regions including parts of the Camargue around Aigues Mortes. The revolt broke out in 1702, with the worst of the fighting continuing until 1704, then skirmishes until 1710 and a final peace by 1715. The Edict of Tolerance was not finally signed until 1787.
WThe Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the southern part of central France with over three millennia of agro-pastoral history.
WCostières de Nîmes is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for wines that are produced in an area between the ancient city of Nîmes and the western Rhône delta, in the French department of the Gard. Formerly part of the Languedoc region of France, as the wines more resemble those of the Rhône valley in character than of the Languedoc, it is now part of the Rhone wine area and administered by the Rhône Wine committee which has its headquarters in Avignon.
WThe 3rd constituency of Gard is a French legislative constituency in the Gard département. It consists of the cantons of Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Roquemaure and Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, and the communes of Aramon and Remoulins.
WThe 4th constituency of Gard is a French legislative constituency in the Gard département. It consists of the cantons of Alès-2, Alès-3, Pont-Saint-Esprit and the communes of Barjac, Lussan, Saint-Ambroix, Saint-Chaptes and Vézénobres.
WThe 5th constituency of Gard is a French legislative constituency in the Gard département.
WThe 6th constituency of Gard is a French legislative constituency in the Gard département.
WThe Sanctuaire de la Fontaine is an ancient site in the city of Nîmes, France. A probable place of worship of the first human settlement around the source, this site is located today in the heart of the Jardins de la Fontaine.