Uzès or Nîmes

It would be a day-trip. We have a car and will be based in Cabannes, near St-Rémy for one week.

Like Nîmes, there are Roman amphitheatres in Orange and Arles. Are we overdosing on amphitheatres if we go to all 3?

Okay, that clarifies it. I chose to see both; having been to both, if I had to choose between Nimes and Uzes, I'd choose Nimes--more to see. If it's any help, Michelin puts Nimes in the *** high recommended category and puts Uzes in the ** recommended category. A heads up on parking a car in Nimes: don't assume it's going to be as easy as described in Rick's book, when I was there last Sept all of the public underground lots touted in Rick's book were full and, after driving around downtown Nimes for a 1/2 hour (not recommended if you value your sanity) looking in vain for surface parking, I chose to return to my home base in Arles and take the train the next day, which was so easy that I learned a valuable lesson about traveling within Provence: go to Arles, Avignon and Nimes by train, even if you have a car, because the rail connections are so quick, you save hours going by rail and lower your blood pressure too; and save the car to reach the places like Les Baux and Pont du Gard that you can't reach by train.

Maureen: Answering your question about "are you over-doing it by seeing all 3 amphitheaters": Yes, probably--I'd suggest doing the Orange amphitheater and either Nimes or Arles amphitheaters but not both, and I'd give a slight preference to the Nimes amphitheater over Arles. Here's why: the Nimes and Arles amphitheaters are described by experts as twins, I've actually seen the word "twin" used: both from the same period, same layout, similar dimensions and capacity; however, Nimes is the best preserved of the 20 or so Roman amphitheaters in Gaul. And then see the Orange one because it's the only one where the stage wall is preserved almost intact.