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To stay in Provence


the heart of most beautiful of the areas, the centers of interests are numerous, by walk or by bike, leave to discovered a history and a culture...

St Remy of Provence and Baux de Provence

Rich of its many ancient and historical sites, Saint-Rémy is also a town of artists and craftsmen. You will discover: the Gallo-romains vestiges of the site of Glanum, the landscapes painted by Van Gogh...
And especially not to miss the weekly market on Wednesday morning, where all savours and scents are proposed to you. We recommend you to arrange a picnic with goat's milk cheeses of the Alpilles, a little olive oil of the Vallée des Baux, a bottle of wine...
Follow the soft planted slopes of olive-trees which lead to Les Baux of Provence.
The village of Les Baux is a fortress planted at the top of a rock peak, which offers an extraordinary panorama on all the area. One finds there many vestiges of the Neolithic era, Roman time and of the Middle Ages. The Castle of Les Baux is an exceptional site with its reconstitutions of machines of war. Not to miss, the Cathedral of Images and its extraordinary audio-visual spectacle.
Each day we recommend to you a market not to be missed in the streets of a nearby village, starting point at one day of excursion. Here some suggestions :

The road of rice and salt, towards Arles and the Camargue...

Arles, small Rome of Gaules, under the sun and the light of Van Gogh, with the féria and the festivals of Rice... The Regional Natural reserve of the Camargue, its protected reserve and then immense wild beaches around Salins-de-Giraud...

The road of the fabrics, towards Tarascon and Nimes...

In the workshops, have printed themselves with the hand or the copper roller, these called chamarrées fabrics "indiennes"with a knowledge perpetuated for 200 years.

The road of the castles in Lubéron,

High perched villages of stone like Lacoste and Bonnieux, Les Bories in Gordes, strange country of castles between Oppède and Lourmarin... Rambles, in VTT or with horse, with the meeting of its villages, castles, bories, fields of olive-trees on bottom of blue sky, with complete freedom.

The road of the creeks, towards Marseilles and Ciotat...

By boat, Discover Marseille and the islands of the Frioul, the creeks of Morgiou between blue sky cobalt and sea emerald. Or by diving in a fantastic world with several tens of meters of depth, with the meeting of treasures and fabulous funds around the islands with broad of Marseilles or Hyères...

The road of the antique dealers towards Avignon, 

The work of wood and furniture of Provence sees the apogee of its style with XVIIe and XVIIIe, in the heart of the triangle Arles-Aix and Avignon. Old pieces of furniture or copies, a route to be followed in the craftsmen or while clouding to the secondhand trade enters it Isle-sur-la-Sorgue and Avignon.