Architectural Curiosities

The Canabou Mills, the Pouzin Canal and the Roman aqueduct.

A stream called the Canabou runs through the Commune of Saint Gervasy. According to Abbot René André, the name comes from the Latin Cannabis or Cannabus, meaning hemp. It seems astounding in our day and age, but ancient documents reveal the presence of a hemp field in Marguerittes in 1529. This stream comes from a spring in Cabrières called the Arnon, which was known to the Romans. Downstream the Canabou receives water from the Fuzeron spring and then the Creux and Lafoux springs.

            Flowing past the Mas Belon, the stream runs into the Vistre river south of Marguerittes. The Vistre flows to the south of Nimes and ends up in the Canal du Rhone à Sete, north of Aigues-Mortes. Today the stream, which is dry most of the time, is not of much economic interest. This was not always the case as there used to be three working mills on the Commune.

             Also on the theme of water there are two curiosities in the Commune: the Roman aqueduct, which took water from the Eure fountain near Uzès to the Castellum divisarium in Nîmes and the Pouzin canal.

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