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Established in 1948, the international opera festival of Aix-en-Provence has become one of the highlights of the international opera lovers' calendar, bringing together tens of thousands of enthusiasts every year.Originally, the festival was under the auspices of Mozart and the first work was Cosi fan tutte. The performances took place in the open court in the courtyard of the Archbishopric. The festival has gradually gained on the city, ringing out the most beautiful voices of lyrical art in the cathedral...

Building an ultra-modern neighborhood located just a short walk away from a two-thousand-year-old historic center was already a challenge in itself, but this neighborhood actually sheltering a great open-air shopping center seemed to be an impossible mission. Aix-en-Provence nevertheless managed its bet by implanting in 2007, right next to the historic district of Tanners and the very chic Mazarin neighborhood, the property complex of "Allées Provençales" ( Provençales Alleys ), now a real leisure activity place and an animated space...

The tourist office of Aix-en-Provence makes a list of numerous excursions from Aix-en-Provence so as to discover its wonderful region. One day or half a day; in French, in English or even in Japanese; in the fields of lavender, on the wine road, in the gorges of the Verdon or on the bridge of Gard: Provence will have no more secrets for you!You can then go on the plateau of Valensole to walk among the huge fields of lavender, before...

The green neighborhood of Jas-de-Bouffan, which had already seen the beginning of the work of the painter Paul Cézanne, has inspired another artist: the Hungarian plastic artist Victor Vasarely, known throughout the world as the creator of optical art. This nonstandard genius did not conceive the art as a solitary activity, and therefore he wanted to share his work with the greatest number of people by building a new kind of place which is called a "polychrome city of happiness",...

The history of the Granet Museum is that of the erudite Aixois passionately attached to their city. Born in the middle of the XIXth century, installed in the very chic and new Mazarin district, within the former priory of Malta, in fact the museum has been establisehd from the gifts and bequests of wealthy inhabitants of the city - mostly parliamentarians. Among them, the painter François-Marius Granet, a pupil of Jacques-Louis David and a friend of Girodet and Ingres, bequeathed...

It is impossible to pass by Aix-en-Provence without becoming permeated by the soul of its most famous artist who is none other than the painter Paul Cézanne, who was born there in 1839 and died there in 1906. Three places put the spotlight on life and the works of the man who said he wanted to "astonish the Parisians with an apple" and that finally marked the whole world.The Atelier des Lauves, located at the north of the city center,...

In addition to its sumptuous landscapes, its climate that makes jealous every city-dweller and its sweet life, one of the main attractive feature of Provence is its gastronomy. Tapenade, anchoïade, aïoli, ratatouille, pissaladière, brissaouda, bouillabaisse, soup with pistou, Poutargue of Martigues, andouillettes with Provençale, moutounesse, calissons of Aix, shuttles of Marseilles, Galapian d'Apt ... As many indicative names that resonates like the guarantee of  a happy stomach in the sun!In order to savor all these local deliciousness, rendez-vous at the...