Highlights
What to see in Aigues-Mortes
The Tour de Constance, the rampart circuit, the grid-planned town and the Camargue setting.
Check availability on Viator ↗The Tour de Constance
The free-standing keep beside the walls is the obvious place to start: built by Louis IX in 1242–1254, with walls six metres thick at the base, and a second history as the prison that held Marie Durand for thirty-eight years.
The ramparts
The circuit of about 1.6 kilometres is complete and walkable the whole way round, past its ten gates and the towers between them, with the town on one side and the Camargue on the other.
The town inside the walls
Aigues-Mortes still follows the grid plan laid out for Louis IX's new port in the thirteenth century, centred on Place Saint-Louis and the church of Notre-Dame-des-Sablons.
The Camargue setting
Part of what there is to see is the land around the walls: the geometric salt pans of the Salins du Midi, and the wider Camargue marshes beyond, home to the region's flamingos, bulls and white horses.