And the the This is joining from France episode 65.

Hello, I'm Annie.

It's good to be back and today I'm going to be doing an episode all about one monument in France, one beautiful, gorgeous

monument called the Pong du Gar. Pong is a bridge. GAR is a department and it so happens that this bridge is in that department.

It's absolutely fabulous. It's the most visited Roman edifice, I guess you could call it in France.

It gets over a million visitors a year.

And it's just wonderful, a wonderful place that I just visited on my recent trip to France.

So let me set the geographical stage a little bit.

It's six hours drive south. a little bit

bit

it's six hours drive south and a little bit east of Paris

if you want to go to the nearest beach

it'll take you about an hour's drive to get to the Mediterranean

it's 40 minutes north of Arla and 30 minutes west of Avignon these are the places

where you know I think you might have heard of those.

It's in the Guard department just like I just said and it's part of the Longodok-rucyon region today.

So technically it's not in province, but that wasn't always the case and

the regional boundaries are likely to change again and they're being redrawn as we speak in France.

So most people who visit the Pont du Gar

do it while visiting Provence,

and as far as I'm concerned, it's part of Provence.

I've been to the Pont du Gar on three occasions and I loved it each time.

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