The Alpilles, an exceptional heritage
Between churches and chapels, mills and castles, mansions and cloisters or monasteries, the Alpilles offer a large territory to discover. In Fontvieille, follow in the footsteps of Alphonse Daudet, in Tarascon put yourself in the shoes of King René, in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, discover the Gallic city of Glanum.
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Alphonse Daudet's mill was built in 1814 and operated until 1915. In 1935 the Société des Amis d'Alphonse Daudet restored it and dedicated it to the...
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In the heart of the Alpilles, the chapel of Notre Dame du Château has been the object of a particular devotion of the Tarasconnais since the Middle ...
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- Chapel
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Saint Michel de Frigolet Abbey (12th-14th century), in the heart of the unspoilt landscape of La Montagnette, takes its name from the many thyme ...
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More than a century of archaeological research has made it possible to present the evidence of an exceptional architectural ensemble. Located in the ...
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- Archeological site
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At the foot of the Alpilles, next to the Roman ruins of GLANUM, there has been, since about the year 1000, a monastery containing a beautiful ...
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The remains of the ramparts are very interesting from an architectural point of view.
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The aqueducts and mills of Barbegal were a complex work of two parallel aqueducts, leading drinking water to the city of Arles from the Alpilles and ...
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Art collection :
- Engineering structure
- Aquaduct
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Historical sundial in Eyguières
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Ruins of the Castellas de Roquemartine
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In the centre of the monastery, St Michel Church and the Cloister plunge us into the purity of 12th century Romanesque art. Some rooms around the ...
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- Church
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At the 'Pas de Bouquet' (Saint Victor district), on the edge of Boulbon, there was an old Gallo-Roman 'villa', where remains of pottery, mosaics, ...
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- Chapel
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Tarascon enjoyed many privileges under the reign of the Counts of Provence.
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- Historical patrimony
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The prosperity of the town of Tarascon led to a number of noble families settling there from the 15th century.
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- Historical patrimony
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"Wide white cloth trousers, small sticky jacket with metal buttons, two feet of red belt, around his stomach, bare neck, shaved forehead, on his head ...
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The Antiques: symbolic monuments of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, they represent the Arc de Triomphe and the Mausoleum, formerly the entrance to the city ...
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themes :
- Triumphal arch
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The monastery of the "Visitation Sainte Marie" was founded in 1641 and approved by Saint Jeanne de Chantal, founder of the Visitation order, at the ...
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The 18th century building is situated on the site of a medieval chapel with the same name. In 1740 the construction of a new church was entrusted to ...
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Religious patrimony :
- Church
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La Persévérance Chapel is actually the remains of a house founded in 1677 to take in 'women and girls of ill repute'.
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Religious patrimony :
- Chapel