Roman Provence Walking Holiday

• 7 nights’ accommodation on a bed and breakfast basis
• Luggage transfers
• Personal transfers where indicated in the programme as a standard arrangement
• Walk Pack, including route notes and mapping
• GPX files

What’s not included

• Packed lunches
• Evening meals, available independently in local restaurants or at your accommodation where offered
• Travel to Uzès and onward travel from Vaison-la-Romaine
• Entrance fees to museums

Built to carry water across the Gardon Valley, the Pont du Gard is one of the defining sights of this holiday. The three-tier Roman aqueduct rises above the river, reached on foot after walking through the surrounding garrigue and woodland.

Séguret, Gigondas, Vacqueyras and Beaumes-de-Venise sit among the vineyards below the Dentelles de Montmirail. Walking between them gives you time to see the landscape behind the names, with limestone ridges above, vines across the lower slopes and Mont Ventoux appearing beyond.

This is Provence seen on foot through two thousand years of history. Begin among the medieval streets of Uzès before walking through garrigue, olive groves and pine woodland to the Pont du Gard, where the Roman aqueduct still crosses the Gardon Valley.

Further east, the landscape changes again. The limestone ridges of the Dentelles de Montmirail rise above vineyards and wine villages including Séguret, Gigondas, Vacqueyras and Beaumes-de-Venise. Beyond them, Mont Ventoux forms a constant presence on the horizon.

The walking is graded Easy to Moderate, with a mixture of quiet trails and hillier sections. Alongside the walking, there is time for Provençal food, local wine and towns where Roman, medieval and present-day life sit comfortably together.

Your holiday begins in Uzès with a circular walk through garrigue, past traditional dry-stone capitelles and out across the surrounding countryside.

The next stage follows the Gardon River towards the Pont du Gard before continuing through the hills to Saint-Bonnet-du-Gard. A transfer then takes you east to Séguret and the vineyards below the Dentelles de Montmirail.

Over the following days, paths link Séguret with Gigondas, Vacqueyras and Beaumes-de-Venise, passing through vineyards, olive groves and pine woodland beneath the limestone ridges. Views frequently open towards Mont Ventoux as you make your way through this wine-growing landscape.

The holiday finishes in Vaison-la-Romaine, where Roman archaeological remains, a medieval old town and Provençal squares make a fitting final stop.

Roman history here is part of the landscape rather than something confined to a museum. The clearest example is the Pont du Gard, built to carry water across the Gardon Valley and still standing nearly two millennia later.

At Vaison-la-Romaine, Roman streets, remains and an ancient bridge reveal the scale of the settlement that once occupied the site. Between these larger monuments, older terraces, routes and cultivated land show how people have worked this part of Provence for centuries.

Walking between them gives the history some context. You move through the same limestone country, river valleys and agricultural landscape that shaped Roman settlement here, before reaching villages where vineyards and olive groves remain part of everyday life.