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club, elegant and unpretentious, set in the countryside, on a plateau overlooking the romantic city of Aix-en-Provence.

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Summary p. 04 | Aix-en-Provence, in the heart of Europe p. 06 | Aix-en-Provence p. 08 | Experience the quintessence of Provence p. 10 | Experience the sweetness of it all p. 12 | Experience of history p. 14 | Experience of culture p. 16 | Experience of greats moments p. 18 | Experience of the gastronomy p. 20 | Experience the contentment p. 21 | Experience of other seasons p. 22 | Aix Region p. 24 | Aix-en-Provence, in the heart of Aix Region p. 26 | Experience of vasts surroundings p. 30 | Aix-en-Provence, in the heart of Provence

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Aix-en-Provence

In the heart of Europe

ENGLAND

BELGIUM

PARIS PARIS

BORDEAUX

SWISS

AIX-EN-PROVENCE AVIGNON ARLES

MARSEILLE

NICE CANNES

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Access...

By plane ∞ Marseille-Provence Airport 32 km from Aix-en-Provence ∞ MP2 Terminal dedicated to low-cost flights

GERMANY

+33 (0)8 20 81 14 14 (12cts/min) www.marseille.aeroport.fr www.mp2.aeroport.fr

By train ∞ Aix-en-Provence TGV Train Station 15 km from the city centre www.voyages-sncf.com ∞ Aix-en-Provence Central Train Station Stops in Marseille, Gardanne, Manosque, Sisteron... www.voyages-sncf.com Airport shuttle / TGV Train Station City-centre - Bus station www.navettemarseilleaeroport.com www.cartreize.com www.idcab.sncf.com

By car

ITALY

A7 / A6 Avignon (88 km), Lyon (297 km), Paris (759 km) A8 Cannes (153 km), Nice (176 km), Menton (208 km) A51 Marseille (35 km), Gap (150 km) A52 /A50 Aubagne (36 km), Toulon (84 km) A54 Arles (75 km), Nîmes (105 km), Montpellier (154 km) www.vinci-autoroutes.com

By bus ∞ City centre Bus Station +33 (0)9 69 32 82 07 (number not surcharged) www.lepilote.com

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...Aix-en-Provence Come and experience it: a getaway in Provence that knows it all beyond the images

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An outdoor cafe

One morning shopping

Experience

A steel blue sky

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A millennium monument

A vista of olive groves

A night of festival

A field of lavander

A natural setting One afternoon hiking

At first glance, Aix-en-Provence makes a strong impression.

Very quickly, it puts the mind at rest, the senses awaken and you become all receptivity. And long after your visit you will remember every nuance of the web of impressions taken in...

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Alcohol abuse is dangerous for your health. Drink with moderation.

Cézanne painted the Sainte-Victoire Mountain dozens of time, without ever pretending to have exhausted the colors and forms of his mountain of light. You can just as well contemplate it every hours of the day and from all points of view... You will be amazed as well. That’s why it’s time to go beyond the images. Even though those of Aix and Provence are so beautiful! For each one reveals a moment of the art of living: an elegant and serene street where one would like to stroll, a perched village perfect to hide, a colorful market to breathe in all the perfumes, an Aixstyle fountain to be soothed by its song, a stone facade to feel its texture or an appetizing plate to savor...

We are happy here, as shown in the pictures. But more than seen, the art of living must be experienced. And… we don’t seem to get over it.

Heritage, culture, gastronomy, shopping… a lot to see and so much to do. But no rush! Taking your time, that’s precisely what the place is all about.

Experience

the Sweetness of it all

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Along the streets of the old town of Aix, your footsteps already rock at the tempo of the Provencal dolce vita. Without haste, without stress, without hesitation, the hours flow in the coolness of the fountains. The walk stretches gently from shady squares to rustling terraces, to the Cours Mirabeau where the centuries pass under the sumptuous blond stone facades.

Gourmet break. Close your eyes, crunch a calisson... Aix specialty made of sweet almond, orange peel and confit melon that heavenly melts in the mouth, as sweet as a tender hug. You like it?

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Have some more, you have time. And what about experiencing one of the many markets in Aix? There is one just around the corner, here, intense as this appetite rising in you while strolling between the market’s stalls... so attractive for the senses! A true blast of fragrances and colors. Now, the aperitif is not far away, just waiting for you.

The rosé Coteaux d’Aix is kept cool and the tapenade always available. The more time passes, the better it gets.

You have time.

Time for experiencing, time for love, time to enjoy your holiday. Truly, there’s no need to rush...

Sainte-Victoire Mountain

Time to stop at the precise spot where Cézanne laid eyes on the landscape and his colors on the canvas to mark forever the history of Art.

Atelier de Cézanne

Time to hike on Sainte-Victoire, a Mountain of tranquility whose sharp relief conceals in reality a deeply soothing nature.

Time for a nap under the olive tree, while the cicadas cymbalize their love.

Villa Beaulieu

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Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur

Experience

of History

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You too will fall under the spell. Even the most distracted viewer of the heritage ends up being caught. So what’s the secret of the city’s beauty?

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It is up to everyone to discover it and to each to glean one’s memories. Aix is better seen as an open book of History, but no need to read or know everything to enjoy the walk. With the city so beautiful, everything’s easy! There is nothing else to do but enjoy the walk and watch. Hence the epochs pass before your eyes, free of boredom or fatigue. For each step you take, Aix tells you a little more about itself, Roman, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance... and Baroque of course: with Paris and Versailles, the city is one of the most beautiful French testimonies of the opulent elegance of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Pavillon de Vendôme

No other city can offer a journey through so many styles in the heart of an unexpected Provence.

Architects, city planners and designers, Fernand Pouillon, Rudy Ricciotti, Vittorio Gregotti, Kengo Kuma, Oriol Bohigas, Patrick Blanc and Christian Ghion have given the city an additional contemporary soul. Unless the drunkenness of the ages wins you up to the point of imagining life scenes 100 or 500 years ago yourself, among the squares surrounded by monuments, the sumptuous bastides of Provence with their parks and gardens, the perfumes of Tuscany, the exceptional collection of some 160 beautifully preserved private mansions... Basically, if Aix always seduces at first glance, it is because of its rich past, and its marvelous heritage accessible to everyone, up to the living traditions that are shared in music, dances and festivals often spectacular. Seen as a whole or in its smallest details, Aix is beautiful and as such to be admired and dreamed of. Splendid simplicity!

Cloître Roman de la Cathédrale

Palais de l’Archevêché

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Pavillon Noir, National Choregraphy Centre, Ballet Preljocaj

Experience

of Culture

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First, follow Cézanne.

Follow the life’s thread of a genius.

Walk in his footsteps…

See the city the way he experienced it, contemplate the landscape the way he loved it.

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Here, the comic strips have its “Rencontres” (festival) and the book its “Cité“ (library). Contemporary ballet is at the Pavillon Noir, modern art in the Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs. Music has its Grand Théatre, the lyrical art its great festival.

In Aix, in the Aix Region, Cézanne is neither a memory

Here, in the land of summer

nor a monument: A presence that

festivals, there are festivals all year long: piano, guitar, digital arts, short films, Big band, current music, sacred music...

remains in you,

Here, the show is being lived and

he’s a presence.

as precious as the work itself.

Spider by Louise Bourgeois Château La Coste

But after Cézanne, what else?

Continue on your way, you are only at the beginning of your discoveries.

the art shown in dreamlike places: 18th century Italian theater, architectural jewels from the 17th to the 21st century, courtyards of historical monuments, parks, castles and gardens, vines and quarries, and even an acoustic conch in the middle of the centenary trees...

Here,

in the company of Cézanne, we like to find Rembrandt, Rubens and Ingres, Van Gogh and Renoir, Picasso, Léger, Staël, Mondrian, and so many others in Granet Museum or Caumont Art Centre. Vasarely is here as well who plays out its optical towers in its stunning architectural center.

Here, it’s whenever you want...

Sainte-Victoire Mountain

Granet Museum

the Experience of Culture never stops.

It is now time to watch the program.

And above all, to listen to your curiosity alone!

Vibrate in the colors of ”his” Sainte-Victoire Mountain, painted over and over again.

Go beyond

the paintings and enter into the artist’s intimate story as he pierced the secret of light.

Here

is a shady garden, then his studio of silence where he returned to at dawn.

Vasarely Foundation Quarries of Bibémus

Caumont Art Centre

Here

is the 20 years old Cézanne’s painting on the walls of the family home of the Jas de Bouffan.

Here

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FESTIVAL OF THE SOUTHERN WRITERS THE EUROPEAN DAY OF THE HANDICRAFTS

Experience

EASTER FESTIVAL

of Greats Moments

THE MUD DAY AIX IN STRIDES TAMBOURIN FESTIVAL “RENCONTRES DU 9E ART“ COMIC STRIP FESTIVAL “LE SM’ART“ CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR

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EUROPEAN NIGHT OF THE MUSEUMS IRONMAN

Spring

GOAT AND HONEY FAIR (Fuveau)

WINE AND GASTRONOMY FAIR (Pertuis) TOUS COURTS FESTIVAL “CRÈCHE PROVENÇALE“ EXHIBITION

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN PROVENCE: crèche, santons, Bravade calendale, marchés des 13 desserts, marche des rois, la pastorale Maurel

WINES FESTIVAL OF THE COTEAUX D’AIX (Rognes) ELOQUENCE DAYS THE CARNIVAL OF AIX

BIG MARKET OF TRUFFLE AND GASTRONOMY (Rognes)

Winter

Going out, having fun, listening and being moved...

In Aix and in the Aix Region, There is no special season for that: all seasons are fine.

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Summer

FESTIVAL AIX IN JUNE Récitals, concerts, master classes

CULTURE FESTIVAL IN THE QUARRIES (Rognes)

VIVRE CÔTÉ SUD FAIR

STROLLING THROUGH THE GARDENS

“FLÂNERIES” OF CONTEMPORARY ART in the Aix gardens “FEU DE LA SAINT-JEAN“ “MUSIC EN VIGNES“ FESTIVAL (Le Puy-SainteRéparade) INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL (Lambesc) NATIONAL DAY FIREWORKS ZIC ZAC FESTIVAL Music of the world WINES FESTIVAL OF AIX-ENPROVENCE

Autumn

AIX-ENPROVENCE FESTIVAL COUNTRY ROCK FESTIVAL (La Roque-d’Anthéron)

“FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE“ Street music festival

INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL (La Roqued’Anthéron)

VINOMUSIC FESTIVAL JAZZ (Rousset)

“LES INSTANTS D’ÉTÉ“ Outdoor cinema

CHARLIE JAZZ FESTIVAL (Vitrolles)

LES CHIKOULADES (Lambesc)

VITROLLES SUN FESTIVAL (Vitrolles) PROVENCAL GASTRONOMY FESTIVAL (Châteauneuf-leRouge) “LES CALADES PROVENÇALES“, Night handicrafts market

PIANISTIC NIGHT FESTIVAL DURANCE LUBERON FESTIVAL (Aix Region) BIG BAND FESTIVAL (Pertuis) MUSIC IN THE STREET

Kengo Kuma Conservatoire Darius Milhaud

LITERARY FAIR “LES ÉCRIVAINS EN PROVENCE“ (Fuveau)

EUROPEAN HERITAGE DAYS

“BÉNÉDICTION DES CALISSONS“

DAYS [AND NIGHTS] CIRCUS FESTIVAL

GOÛTEZ VOIR

RALLY DISCOVERY OF THE SAINTEVICTOIRE WINES (Trets) FÊTE MISTRALIENNE

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Experience

of the Gastronomy

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The terroir, products, cuisine and flavors.

Provence got it all…

And it’s all for you!

Pleasure... ...earthy

, knife in hand, ready to honor your mouthwatering plate of goat cheeses from the Aix hills.

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...intense

, sniffing your glass while savoring (with moderation) the elegant and sensual wines of the five AOP of the Aix Region: Palette, SainteVictoire, Coteaux d’Aix, Côtes-de-Provence and Luberon.

In France, gastronomy is an art.

In Provence, it’s simply fun.

A pure pleasure.

...libertine

but divine, to dip a slice of good bread in a plate filled with the AOP Aix-en-Provence olive oil…

...festive

and powerful with a few grams of truffle tuber melanosporum on a boiled egg or pasta dish.

Are you drooling?

Imagine now a market in the Aix Region. You have the colors in mind, but not yet the sounds, nor the perfumes.

You must go one morning to understand how much Provence is a garden that opens up your appetite.

Fruits, vegetables, herbs, farm products... The entire terroir slips into your basket. From one season to the next, try Mona Lisa potatoes and Pertuis asparagus, Trets white melons, Gardanne beets, Arc Valley garlic, and then the almonds, figs, apples, cherries, honey, lamb...

Good products are also at local producers who welcome you to the farm. And then along the gourmet road, where pastry chefs delight you with their chocolate, ice cream, and other goodies.

Meal’s ready now! But where? At home if Provence inspires you... Or the table of a good restaurant

Aix calissons

as there are so many in Aix and the Aix Region, the table of a chef who cooks with his heart and convictions...

Unless you prefer the table you share after a cooking class, on the occasion of which a famous secret of Provencal grandmother was transmitted to you?

Pick one and have a seat with all your friends!

The ultimate pleasure of Provencal cuisine is to be together, and happy...

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Yes

to relaxation and its rare moments

Experience

Contentment

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that await you in Les Thermes Sextius Spa and other well-being centers in Aix: scrubs, massages, wraps, refined care and rituals, benefits of the natural cosmetics based on olive oil, essential oils, flowers and plants of Provence...

Yes to the temptations of open air shopping along the pedestrian streets of Aix-enProvence, when the city comes alive with all its showcases, influential brands, craft workshops, designer boutiques, concept stores, big names in fashion...

Obviously, you have deserved your holidays. So, don’t resist what comes your way and treat yourself!

Yes to the sweet halt in one of these delightful places in the city centre, cozy tea-rooms, delicatessens, confectioners, calissons makers and great pastry houses.

Yes to the Aix nightlife where you just follow your desires to see where they take you, apéros bistrots before electro, wine bars restaurants, theatres, cafés theatres, shows, cinemas, casino, nightclubs...

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The Provencal summer is such a beloved postcard that some come to wonder if Provence exists between September and May. Yes, it surely does, and it is even more beautiful! The sun does not go away; it simply descends from its heights, covering the landscapes with an incomparable luster, coloring the horizon of intense cobalt hues, and subliming the twilight into an incandescent show.

This exquisite light of autumn and winter in Provence redraws the scenery of your escapades. And we come to wait impatiently for the nightfall, when the streets light up at the approach of Christmas.

In autumn as in winter, Provence remains a sensory wonderment, but reveals rather hidden aspects of itself. Let’s try!

This is the time of the calendal festivals! Beginning on December 4 th at Sainte-Barbe (where a little wheat is grown at home in promise of prosperity), they extend to Candlemas on February 2nd. It’s a wonderful period where the Provencal traditions move you to the core, in all their joyful vitality and their happy identity.

Look at the ocher

Baroque facades of the old Aix in late afternoon.

Look at the limestone shades of Sainte-Victoire throughout the day.

Look at the golden

stretches of vineyards after the harvest, the sparkling olive trees at the time of picking... Indeed, what you see can’t be seen in summer!

Aix sparkles and subjugates, celebrations and animations proliferate in the city and villages... with shining eyes in the briskly air, you pace Christmas markets while listening to chorus enchanting the streets, before attending a Provencal Mass of fervor. In one of the many fairs of santons, you come to meet the clay people born of a know-how unique in the world...

Among the highlights of these festivals in Aix, do not miss the ’Bravades calendales’ in December, a true celebration of traditional music and dances on the Cours Mirabeau, and in January the March of the Kings at the Cathedral of Saint-Sauveur, surrounded by small trades, shepherds, drummers, grinders... Magic? Yes...

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Museum and sites Aqueduc de Roquefavour 30 min 2 Musée Arteum 20 min 3 Abbaye de Silvacane 35 min 4 Domaine de Roques-Hautes 20 min 5 Barrage de Bimont 20 min 6 Barrage Zola 20 min 7 Château de Vauvenargues 30 min 8 Maison du Grand Site Sainte-Victoire 30 min 9 Château-Musée Edgar Mélik 20 min 10 Tuilerie Bossy 20 min 11 Musée de la mine 30 min 12 Musée de l’uniforme 20 min 13 Maison Sainte-Victoire 20 min 1

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Château La Coste 30 min Jardin d’Albertas 20 min Écomusée de la Forêt 20 min Jardin d’Éguilles 20 min Jardin de Romégas 20 min Terrasses du château d’Arnajon 30 min Jardins Val Joanis 40 min

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TOWARDS AUBAGNE TOULON

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Experience

of Vasts Surroundings

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Land of light...

Provence: a serene, smooth, and savory land rich in favorites. A land easily discovered through thematic routes. The most famous, the most beautiful of them? The CĂŠzanne road! This is where you can start your discoveries: 75 km of enchanted navigation, pictorial emotions, striking panoramas...

It’s a splendid prelude to many more explorations.

Welcome to the Aix Region, around Aix-en-Provence.

At the foot of Sainte-Victoire, a green wild landscape to experience if you wish to extend your stay... and your happiness to be here.

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Enthralling land...

On the roads of the sacred heritage, you are drawn to countless landscapes and old fabulous stones, churches, chapels, oratories, hermitages, monasteries and abbeys such as the Cistercian abbey of Silvacane. In its beauty and architectural richness, this heritage tells a lot about the history of the inhabitants and the birth of the villages. But who comes simply to seek silence, moments of eternity or the delight of a panorama, is fulfilled beyond his hopes. Granted also your desire for romanticism, in the green privacy of mansions and castles in the countryside of Aix. Many of its noble buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries

can be visited outdoors. The shimmering basins, murmuring fountains, bird paths, nymphaea, perfect gardens and embroidered flowerbed, all emanate a dreamlike quality. Then, follow the roads along the water, the directed, controlled water, the nourishing water and even the forgotten water, the water that connects man to the springs and rivers by so many stories, both engineering works and heritage: Aqueducts, dams, lakes, canals, fountains, basins, lavoirs... With remarkable sites, secret corners, walk of freshness, game of hide and seek and treasure hunt, Aixen-Provence will quench your thirst for light in any case.

Abbey of Silvacane

The journey doesn’t stop there, neither the magic. On the gourmet road, it’s not so easy to make up your mind between all these delicacies, chocolates, biscuits and pastries…

Your turn now to improvise each stopover according to your appetite: Meetings with local producers, festivals and fairs of the terroir, visit of olive oil mills and their exceptional green or black fruit flavor. Along the roads of the Provencal wines, we explore the various domains and estates... keeping in mind during each cellar visit, the well-known adage of the oenotourist: taste the vintage with sobriety while savoring the encounters without moderation.

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Authentic land...

What about leaving behind the beaten paths?

Letting your inspiration guide you?

Trust it will find its way in the irresistible Aix Region. It will orient you without fail among the wooded hills and farmed valleys, vineyards, olive groves and intoxicating lavender... There will be no shortage, among the perched villages and their web of narrow streets, museums and curiosities, artists’ studios and monuments of nature, festivals and fairs of the terroir where we celebrate products and flavors with local producers, olive oil mills where is revealed the exceptional flavor of green or black fruit... You may take the cross-roads for other perspectives on Aix-en-Provence Why not the GR2013, hiking trail between city and nature set up for the European Capital of Culture... Or the trail of the historical mining pole, which plunges you into the atmosphere and work of the mine in the 20th century. These are other routes...

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But in the Aix Region...

Tonic land...

The power of the Aix landscape isn’t limited to its light, there are also the mountains, massifs and chains that compose it: chaîne des Côtes, Roques, Trévaresse, Concors, Quatre termes, Arbois, Étoile, Régagnas and of course the Sainte-Victoire Mountain, (Grand Site de France).

the journey is endless. And that’s good!

To appreciate this spectacular scenery, hiking is the best. Either on foot or horseback or by mountain bike, the paths weave from plains to summits a narrative sometimes wise but mostly wild through the flowering meadow and farmed land, garrigues, pine forests, forests, sublime panorama…

In Ecobalades, you become familiar with the emblematic flora and fauna of the Aix Region. They bring you a little closer to this preserved nature, full of nuances and diversity.

More ideas? Climbing and paragliding for thrills, golf for a softer course... It’s all up to you!

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Aix-en-Provence

In the heart of Provence

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