Uzès (French pronunciation: [y.zɛs]; Occitan: Usès) is a commune in the Gard department in the Occitanie region of Southern France.

The town lies at the source of the Alzon river, at Fontaine d'Eure, from where a Roman aqueduct was built in the first century AD, to supply water to the city of Nîmes, 50 kilometres (31 miles) away.

The most famous stretch of the aqueduct is the Pont du Gard, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site,[3] which carried fresh water over splendid arches across the Gardon river.

Complaints were made of him to King Childebert I for this issue, whereupon the bishop was required to turn against them, expelling those Jews from Uzès who would not convert to Christianity.

Like many cloth-manufacturing centers (Uzès was known for its serges), residents of the city and the surrounding countryside had become strongly Protestant during the 16th century, and religious and class conflicts played out in the Wars of Religion.

Its existence was recorded on a list of eleven other settlements on a stela in Nîmes (ancient Nemausus)[5] on which its name appears as "VCETIAE".

[6] In 2017, Roman mosaics were discovered by accident during construction at a local high school, and represented material proof of Ucetia.

Together with the animals, decorations represented water, geometric shapes, colors, and patterns, including a design with ancient swastika-like elements.

until the 7th century A.D.[10] Ucetia was known to have been a source of water carried via aqueduct to many communities, especially ancient Nemausus (Nîmes), which grew to a population of about 30,000.

Construction of the aqueduct led to a "classic Roman tragedy" of greed in the nearby cities and towns that affected Ucetia and other communities.

A Capuchin chapel, built in 1635 to house the mortal remains of the dukes, occupies the site of a 1st-century AD temple dedicated to the first Roman Emperor, Augustus.

There are monuments of the prestige of the former bishopric, once one of the most extensive of Languedoc, but extinguished at the Revolution, and private houses that witness the wealth that the textile trade brought in the 16th century.