Ancient Roman coaching inn, the city named Beaucaire, in the epartment of GardRoman coaching inn, welcomed a big fair since the Middle Age until the eighteenth century.
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Today, you can visit :
- The church Saint Paul (14th-15th centuries). - A great number of mansions dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. - The river port. - The Municipal museum Auguste Jacquet (archaeology, arts and popular traditions). - The Royal castle (11th-12th centuries), which dominates the city.
Near :
- The troglodyte abbey of Saint-Roman :dug in the rock, at the top of a hill, by hermits in the fifth century, it was occupied until 1538.
- The Mas of Tourelles : reconstruction of a Gallo-Roman cellar
in which one can sample Roman drinks as the Mulsum (wine) or the Defrutum (fruit juice).
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