Make a note of this for your next pub quiz: France’s 5th most popular tourist attraction (and probably the furthest south) is the Pont Du Gard, which in case you didn’t know, is the world’s finest and best preserved Roman aqueduct:

Pont Du Gard aqueduct

Three layers on a birthday cake is ostentatious, but on a piece of engineering? Magnificent.

And if you give the under-lit museum and its tiny labels a miss (am I getting old?), it’s only 9 euros per car for the parking.