Aix en Provence Airfares

Set amidst the mountainous countryside of the Provence region in the southeast of France, Aix-en-Provence is an elegant city of learning and culture.

Around 40 public fountains flow in its squares and avenues. The oldest is the Fontaine Espéluque, dating back to the 15th century. The most impressive is La Rotonde, decorated with three statues symbolizing Aix-en-Provence’s main activities of justice, fine arts and agriculture at the time of its construction in 1860.

Admire more fountains along the Cours Mirabeau, a tree-lined avenue bordered by elegant buildings and cafés.

The beautiful eighteenth century house, Le Pavillon de Vendôme, is an oasis of calm, set in its own tranquil gardens. It evokes a sense of the grandeur of the past with seventeenth and eighteenth century furniture, paintings and decorations.

As a city of learning, Aix-en-Provence offers a wide range of museums devoted to natural history (including dinosaur fossils from the local area), archeology, history, fine arts, furniture and tapestries. There is even a museum of the integration of contemporary geometric abstract art into architecture, the Fondation Vasarely.

Aix-en-Provence and the surrounding countryside had a great influence on the artist, Paul Cézanne, whose quiet, light-filled studio is preserved as it was at the time of his death in 1906. Nine miles from the city is the mountain, Montagne Ste.-Victoire that was a great source of inspiration for Cézanne.