Key Information: Group Size: 2
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people Destination:Aix-en-Provence Season: January - December Languages: English, French Minimum Cost: 75 Euro (EUR) Per person Maximum Cost: 200 Euro (EUR) Per person
All year round it's a pleasure to cross the orchards and in November and December it's a very lively spectacle to see the picking up of olives and the people going to the windmill. Tasting the local specialty of "olives cassées" and the new olive oil is an unbelievable experience. Vineyards make also the beauty of the countryside and invite you to a wine tasting of excellent Provincial wines! South part of the small mountain range the village of les Baux-de-Provence offers its particular silhouette with the ruins of its castle on the top of a high cliff.
Rock is present everywhere there sculpting strange shapes in the countryside. The cobbled streets of les Baux bring you back to the Middleages and Renaissance period when the village was a Protestant place and tell you the history of this rebellious fortress destroyed under the order of the King of France. Vincent Van Gogh who spent one year there in the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near Saint-Remy-de-Provence, made this land famous and realized his major works there fascinated by the landscape, the light and the nuances of colors.
Not far from the hospital, the ruins of the antique city of Glanum and two splendid monuments, a mausoleum (1rst century BC) and an Arch (1rst century AD), remind us that Provence has been early conquered by Romans as a link between Italy and Spain. They left many witnesses of their brilliant civilization in Nimes, Pont du Gard, Orange, Vaison-la-Romaine as well as in Arles which was one of the most important Roman city of the South of Gaul. The ruins of the Roman theatre and the amphitheatre are both remarkable monuments still in use today.
Lovers of bullfights can see their favorite spectacle in the Coliseum and lovers of music can listen to Mozart in the theatre. A moving experience!
