Port de plaisance de Saint-Gilles

Saint-Gilles was originally a Greek port city name or Rhodanousia Heraclea, founded five centuries before Christ. Later, at the time of the counts of Toulouse and the height of the famous Benedictine abbey, trade developed there, before experiencing a revival in the eighteenth century, with the digging of a large shipping canal linking the port of Sète the Rhone.

By this time, we saw many barges, carrying all kinds of goods and loading barrels of wine from Saint-Gilles.

In 1985, the commercial port is turned into the marina, with the redevelopment of the wharf and the availability of users, posts drinking water, electrical outlets, distributors of fuel and an inclined plane to the launching of boats arriving by road. It now has 89 rings.

The port of Saint-Gilles became the only marina in the Nîmes Métropole urban community, constituting an important lever for economic development of the municipality.