Teachers & schools
All the information and contacts you need to organise your school visit to the Pont du Gard
The Pont du Gard site offers a wide range of school activities in line with the curriculum taught in class. The Gallo-Roman period, water, stone, the Mediterranean landscape, sustainable development, art and world heritage are just some of the themes covered in our cultural areas.
Depending on the subjects being taught, the length of your visit and the school level of your classes, our booking agents will put together a visit programme for you, and educational documents can be made available to you.
The entry fee is €120 / bus and allows you to visit the site freely and at your own pace, as well as all the cultural areas: Museum - Cinema - Ludo - Mémoires de Garrigue, etc.
The Pont du Gard site offers guided tours of the monument during which you can learn all about its fascinating and unique history. Each guided tour is limited to 30 people, including accompanying persons. More than one slot can be booked in case if there will be more than 30 participants.
Cycle 3 : from primary (year 4)/ secondary school / college;
Outdoor visit;
Duration: 1h.
To encourage school visits and promote ties with the National education authority, the Délégation Académique à l’éducation Artistique et Culturelle du Rectorat de Montpellier has created an Educational Service for the Pont du Gard site, to which two history-geography teachers have been assigned. This Educational Service can advise and support you in the development of your educational project.
To help you link the official programmes with the school activities offered on the Pont du Gard site, the Educational Service offers a guide to school activities:
To help you organise a school outing along the Nîmes aqueduct (in Uzès, on the Pont du Gard site or in Nîmes), the "Water trail, a Roman way of life" offers a wealth of scientific and educational information:
To encourage Art History related educational activities, the Educational Service proposes a slide show through which pupils can discover the diversity of artistic fields that can be explored on the Pont du Gard site:
The Pont du Gard, the star of a Roman aqueduct, was included on the Unesco World Heritage list in 1985. The Educational Service has developed an activity sheet to explain the World Heritage conceptand its various selection criteria:
The Educational Service proposes a school activities guide to help you to relate the national curriculum programmes with the educational activities proposed by the Pont du Gard site:
The Pont du Gard site can be visited by schools in complete freedom, with the help of a series of educational booklets: the "Vademecum". Organised by school level, the "Vademecum" offers a range of turnkey tours of all the cultural areas and the approaches to the bridge:
Ludo area:
Ludo area, Mémoires de Garrigue exhibition:
Mémoires de Garrigue exhibition:
Teachers' answers:
Museum:
Ludo area, Cine:
Ludo area, Cine, Museum:
Museum, Cine, Ludo area, Mémoires de Garrigue exhibition:
Mémoires de Garrigue exhibition:
Teachers' answers:
Museum:
Museum, Mémoires de Garrigue exhibition:
Mémoires de Garrigue exhibition:
Teachers' answers:
To deepen your visit and plunge you into the heart of the Pont du Gard construction site or into the world of the Roman child, the educational team offers you "Mementos" with resource sheets, teacher preparation sheets and student activity sheets:
Resource sheets
- Memento "The Pont du Gard"
Resource sheets
- Memento "The Pont du Gard"
Construction sites and quarries
- Worksite and quarries" Memento
- Teacher preparation sheet
- "Site and Quarries" Memento
- Student sheet
The child in the Roman family
- Memento "The child in the Roman family"
- Teacher preparation sheet
- Memento "The child in the Roman family"
- Student sheet
Roman children at school
- "The Roman child at school" Memento
- Teacher preparation sheet
- "The Roman child at school" Memento
- Student sheet
The Roman child and games
- "The Roman child and games" Memento
- Teacher preparation sheet
- Memento "The Roman child and games"
- Student sheet
Tarifs TTC / personne, valables du 01/09/2022 au 31/08/2023
Tarif : 120€ / bus
Durée : de 1 / 2 journée à 1 journée (tous niveaux)
Comprenant :
• La visite libre de Ludo de 5 à 12 ans | Durée : 50min ;
• La visite libre du Musée | Durée : 1h30 ;
• La visite libre de Mémoires de garrigue | Durée : 1h30 ;
• La visite libre de l’Exposition temporaire | Durée : 1h00 ;
Prices inc. VAT / person
Price: €120 / bus
Duration: half to full day (all academic levels)
Including:
• Open visit to the Ludo centre, 5 to 12 years | Duration: 50min
• Open visit to the Museum | Duration: 1h30
• Open visit to the ‘Mémoires de garrigue’ exhibition | Duration: 1h30
• Open visit to the Temporary Exhibition | Duration: 1 hour
Prices incl. VAT / person
Price: +100€ / guide
Up to 30 participants, including accompanying persons
Guided tour of the Pont du Gard
For the "With your head and your legs!” orienteering race :
Price: +100€ / guide
up to 30 participants, including accompanying persons | Basic year round price in addition to the 120€ bus pass, valid for one guide.
Duration: half day (approx. 2h30)
Opening hours
Museum areas open from 9.30am to 5pm or 7pm depending on the season
Reservation
Reservation service open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm
Reservation service
Open from Monday to Friday
from 9am to 5pm
Contact our booking department to draw up your own visit programme, depending on the number of pupils and your visit time.