infotourisme.net : touristic guide in France
infotourisme.net : touristic guide in France  

Tourist route in provence

Sciences & discovery 

The côte d'azur is set up to receive a large and rather affluent tourist clientele. but the coast is also camargue and its keepers ; and the great ports...

Arles

Arles


  In Arles, there are not only the arenas and the ancient theatre. The morning, appreciate the environment of the market before visiting the Thermal baths of Constantin, Alyscamps (necropolis paléochrétienne), the Museums (Réattu - Arlaten - of Arles antique).

Arles / camargue

Arles / camargue


  Leave to discovered the Camargue, a ground between sky and water, located at the mouth of the Rhone with its wild bulls, its white horses and its pink flamingos. At the village of the Holy-Marry-of-the-Sea, in the crypt of the church, which goes back to 1448, find Sarah, the black virgin of the gipsies.

Camargue / martigues

Camargue / martigues


  Venice of Provence with its boats, its channels, its houses coloured and flowered resembles an island in Provence. Taste a fish soup of rock after one strolls in boat.

Martigues / aix en provence

Martigues / aix en provence


  Old Capital of Provence, discover its museums, its private mansions, its shaded coffee terraces, its musical fountains and its coloured markets.

Aix-en-provence / salon de provence

Aix-en-provence / salon de provence


  Nostradamus lived in Salon, one of the oldest towns of Provence. With the wire of the streets, discover the Castle of Empéri and its Museum of Art and Military History, the House of Nostradamus, the Grévin Museum of Provence, Collegial the St-Laurent, the St-Michel Church, the Moussue Fountain, the Town hall and the Tower of the Clock.

Salon de provence /saint rémy de provence / les baux

Salon de provence /saint rémy de provence / les baux


  Saint-Remy has an exceptional cultural inheritance. To see inter alia, Roman Antiques, vestiges, the site of Glanum, the Archaeological Museum of the Hotel of Sade, the monastery Saint-Paul de Mausole, the Museum of Alpilles, etc… While entering the village of the Beams of Provence, you find yourselves plunged in the history of Provence. In a medieval environment, find the keep and the strengthened towers, the machines of seat which overhang Alpilles. It is possible also to attend a sound and light in the freshness of the Cathedral of image (old careers of Beam-of-Provence).

Arles/on the steps of daudet

Arles/on the steps of daudet


  You will find in Fontvieille, a small hike one hour around the city with discovered of 4 mills and castle of Montauban. One strolls on the traces of the places which mark out the writings of Daudet in the middle of the pines and the olive-trees.

* not contractual pictures