Talk:Nîmes
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Nemausus in your article derives from NILE.
The contemporary symbol shield of Nîmes, a crocodile chained to a palm tree with the inscription 'COLNEM' or short version of 'Colonia Nemausus', is a reference to the colony of legion veterans from Caesar's Nile campaigns. At the end of fifteen years of soldieering, the veterans were given plots of land to cultivate on the plain of Nîmes.
If you go to the 'Jardins de la Fontaine' in the center of Nîmes, you can clamber up its watchtower that oversees the plain...The French Foreign Legion has one of its regiment, the 2e Régiment Etranger d'Infanterie, sited near the town center in a Napoleonic barracks since 1983...
[edit] New articles needed?
The Arena is definitely worth an article of its own, possibly also Tour Magne. Anyone able to do it? If not, I will try but it may take some time. Emeraude 09:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
