Photo: Krzysztof Golik (CC BY-SA 4.0)
A self-guided audio walking tour of the Pont du Gard, on foot on both banks of the Gardon; the city of Nîmes, where the water went, has its own tour. It starts in the left-bank square, in front of Jean-Paul Viguier's reception building set two-thirds into the ground, with the story of the aqueduct built around the middle of the 1st century AD to carry the water of the Eure spring near Uzès some fifty kilometres to Nemausus. It visits the museum, when open, with its life-size Roman street and staged building site, and three olive trees transplanted here in 1988, said to be more than a thousand years old. At the bridge, three tiers rising about 49 metres above the river, it tells how the aqueduct was abandoned around the beginning of the 6th century and the bridge became a quarry and a crossing. It crosses on Henri Pitot's road bridge of 1743 to 1747, with more than 320 journeymen's marks in its stones, climbs to the right-bank viewpoint, passes the Salpêtrière rock shelter, used by hunter-gatherers about 19,000 years ago, and ends along the aqueduct remains at the partly destroyed Valmale bridge.
8 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 1 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Left Bank Square, Pont du Gard Museum, Thousand-Year-Old Olive Trees.
Pont du Gard, Pont Pitot.
Right-bank Pont du Gard viewpoint, Salpêtrière Prehistoric Shelter, Aqueduct Remains and the Valmale Bridge.
Jean-Paul Viguier's reception building, set two-thirds into the ground so it cannot be seen from the monument, and the start of the aqueduct's story.
When open, a life-size Roman street of Nemausus at water level, then models and a staged building site showing how the aqueduct was made.
Three tiers of arches about 49 metres above the Gardon that carried the water channel, later quarried for stone and kept as a crossing.
Henri Pitot's road bridge of 1743 to 1747 against the lowest tier, built of stone from the reopened Roman quarry and marked by more than 320 journeymen's engravings.
A rock shelter used by hunter-gatherers about 19,000 years ago, with more than six metres of layers and a culture named after it.
A trail along the buried and broken channel, through a tunnel cut in the rock, to the partly destroyed Valmale bridge.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 8 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 8 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in The Pont du Gard — the Roman Aqueduct Bridge, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
8 narration points, including Left Bank Square, Pont du Gard, Pont Pitot, Aqueduct Remains and the Valmale Bridge and Pont du Gard Museum. That is about 7 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 8 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.