The village clings to a limestone cliff 250 metres above the Coulon Valley. The houses are honey-coloured stone, stacked so tightly that one rooftop serves as the terrace for the house above. Gordes has been a Provence postcard since the 1950s, when artists and writers, including Marc Chagall and Victor Vasarely, settled here. The village […]
Fifty thousand tons of limestone blocks hold themselves together without mortar. The Pont du Gard spans the Gardon River with three tiers of arches, the tallest reaching nearly fifty metres. It carried water from a spring in Uzès to the city of Nîmes, a distance of fifty kilometres with a gradient of just thirty-four centimetres […]
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Provence smells different from the rest of France. The air carries lavender, pine, and sea salt. The region stretches from the Rhône River to the Italian border. It covers 31,000 square kilometres. Provence has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The Greeks founded Marseille in 600 BC. The Romans left amphitheatres and aqueducts. Popes lived in […]
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Saint-Tropez is the most famous fishing village in the world, a sun-drenched Provencal port on the French Riviera where billionaires’ superyachts bob alongside traditional wooden pointus, the glitterati gather at the legendary Club 55 on Pampelonne Beach, and the soft Mediterranean light that inspired Matisse and Signac still bathes the pastel-coloured houses of the old […]
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