Our region : The Costières
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A sea of vineyards! The rich and pebbly soil of the Costières favours vine growing and also fruit and vegetables. Apples, pears, plums, peaches, apricots, cherries, strawberries, melons, tomatoes, olives and asparagus are currently grown there.!
The nearby Camargue has its ferias and traditional festivities with bull fights in arenas ...
Nimes, " the Roman town ", is well named : the town and its surrounding hold amazing Roman ruins, arenas, oppidums, gardens ... Just as does Lunel, a small city with a rich historical heritage ...
For the anecdote, Alphonse Daudet, Gaston Doumergue, Bernadette Laffont and Julien Dore are natives of the country.
Local food : Cod brandade, Nîmes pâtés, Beaucaire pâtisson, hams, sausages, grillade saint-gilloise, fish soup, tellines, snails, frogs, truffle salad, olive oil, olive tapenade, mushrooms, honey, vegetables, fruit, fougasse, Beaucaire bread, Villaret croquant, Nîmes croquant, Nîmes minerve and berlingot...
Wines: sand wines, Costières-de-Nïmes, Clairette de Bellegarde, Côtes du Rhone, Muscat de Lunel, Cartagène...
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