- Manduel The town is located on the plain of Vistre and Costières, 10 km from Nimes.
- History:
- The first traces of human occupation dating back to prehistory. Surrounded by forests, oak and near fish ponds, the site is an ideal location for the original inhabitants. Flint discovered on the banks of the pond of Campuget represent real evidence of this human activity.
- Favored by its proximity to Nimes and the creation of the Heraclean Way that preceded the Domitian Way, Manduel becomes a prosperous town during antiquity.
- During the late Middle Ages, Manduel is first the property of the Counts of Toulouse and that of Guilhaume Nogaret, lord of Calvisson. Manduel depend lords of that town until the French Revolution.
- Like the cities of the south of France, Manduel suffered the phylloxera crisis in 1876. Through the practice of transplantation and expertise of manduelois, the crisis is controlled locally and practices are exported.
- Today Manduel is attractive and easily accessible thanks to the TGV station building Nîmes - Pont du Gard in the town. Manduel is also close to the airport Nîmes-Alès-Camargue-Cévennes, and the highway. Tango network Nîmes Métropole also allows to reach by bus.
