Welcome to Vaucluse and Provence 360° virtual tour the best way before your holidays in South of France -first take a 360° visit :natural and historical sites, hôtels,Guest rooms, cities and villages
Arles is the largest commune of France with 75.000 hectares it etend of the banks of the Rhone to the beaches the saline ones of Giraud and the Camargue in the south in the east towards the plain of the crau centre of exceptional natural spaces: banks of the Rhone, the arid plain of Crau and Alpilles.
The city was formerly metropolis of the Roman gaule then symbol of a radiant Christian past as still testify some the arenas and Alyscamps (necropolis), the ancient theatre or the thermal baths of Constantin
Arles is today the door of the Camargue, fatherland of gitans and go of gardians with their férias and the bullfights which proceed in these same arenas (12.000 witnesses) which sheltered the Roman plays at the 1st century!
Town of festival, history and culture, Arles has never to cease attracting the artists, Van Gogh remained there with his/her friend Gauguin. Picasso, amateur of bullfights, devoted 2 paintings and 57 drawings to it…
Arles is active today as regards photography: each summer the International Meetings of Photography attract many visitors the Roman monuments of Arles are registered with the World Inheritance of UNESCO, they are to be discovered, as well as the houses and private mansions of the XVI and XVIIèmes, the cloister St Trophism, the Town hall and the shaded terraces of plane trees of the Place of the Strings.
To visit:
Arenas. the ancient theatre. Alyscamps.l' spaces Van Gogh
Thermal baths of Constantin (IVème).
Museums:
The Museum of ancient Arles (sarcophagi of IVème) and museum Arlaten (pieces of furniture and objects of
traditional popular art). Museum of Rice.
Leisures:
Horsemanship (9 herds). Pedestrian excursions and VTT. 3 beaches. Capelière: path discovered of the ecosystem camarguais. Many festivals: Celebrates of Gardians on May 1.
show of the santonniers in December. Mosaics gitanes. Circuit Van Gogh…
