ARLES, FRANCE: TOP 5 things you MUST do in Arles! | Ep. 34
In all honesty, there are way more than 5 things we love about Arles. We take you on a tour of our top 5 things we think are a no-brainer when it comes to visiting this amazing city, with a little hiccup there at the end.
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Farmers market in Arles France
A short walk through of part of the farmer's market in Arles France. May 2009
Arles, France walking tour
Arles is most famous for its Roman amphitheater, still intact, and its connections with Van Gogh, who spent one of his final years here painting 200 canvases. Its real appeal, however, is found in the lovely pedestrian promenades, historic landmarks, museums and tranquil plazas, all of which make Arles one of the most charming places in Europe. We also take you to the huge outdoor food market on Saturday mornings.
Arles, Provence in the south of France
We are taking you to the beautiful city of Arles, in Provence in the south of France. Arles is most famous for its Roman amphitheater, still intact, and its connections with Van Gogh, who spent one of his final years here painting 200 canvases. Its real appeal, however, is found in the lovely pedestrian promenades, the historic landmarks, museums and tranquil plazas, all of which make Arles one of the most charming places in Europe.
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There's a lot of these narrow streets in Arles, there is a small pedestrian zone, there's the various squares and the cafés around it, of course, and historic sites. And we will be showing you those highlights coming up right now as we take a walk through Arles.
The old town of Arles is comfortably small. It's about a square mile. So it's very easy to see the whole thing on foot. You might consider spending a couple of days here.
Or you could visit as a daytrip for example from Avignon which is just 20 miles away and only takes 20 minutes by train to get here. In this program we will show you how you can do everything in one day but certainly if you want to spend more time you decide for yourself. To help you plan your visit we will also present more detailed suggestions about how you could spend a night or two here and still find lots to do.
This is part of a series we’re presenting showing how Avignon makes a very good home base for visiting out to other destinations like Pont du Gard, and St Remy and Nimes along with Aix and Marseille, and especially Arles, the wonderful city of van Gogh and the ancient Romans, with narrow pedestrian lanes weaving throughout the center
The main attractions are the arena, the pedestrian zone and a historic museum. We will show you a good walking route on the map. Of course you can walk anywhere you want, it’s small enough, but this route will take you right through the center and then back to the train station, a route just over 2 miles, or about 3 kilometers, you can do in several hours. But you should also see the history museum while you're here, with its fine collection from the ancient Roman days, an easy detour. So let's assume you're coming in from Avignon on a day trip and you want to see everything.
Aix en Provence food markets
When in Aix-en-Provence, among the most enjoyable places to admire the foods, flowers, antiques and colorful local life are the many outdoor markets scattered through Aix, especially on a Saturday morning and to a lesser degree on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Arles, France: Ruins, Museums, and International Flavor
More info about travel to Arles: Arles, France, with its strategic bridge over the Rhône River, was a key stop on the Roman road from Italy to Spain. Today Arles thrives again with Roman ruins, an assortment of museums, and welcoming pedestrian zones.
At you'll find money-saving travel tips, small-group tours, guidebooks, TV shows, radio programs, podcasts, and more on this destination.
Arles, France 2 Cathedral
The former cathedral of Arles, called Eglise San Trophime, has a fantastic series of Byzantine sculptures around the door on the façade that have been recently restored to their pristine beauty. The interior is also from the Byzantine, older than the Gothic. It's quite a church, and another UNESCO World Heritage site.
Be sure to find the Cloister of San Trophime, tucked away around the corner. This cloister is like an open-air museum with architecture and sculpture spanning a 300-year period: gothic pointed arches on one side, and older, Romanesque barrel-vaulting on the other side.
The open court in the center is surrounded by beautiful columns, each with different, detailed stone carvings on their capitals, and corner columns especially noted for their realistic, gothic statues representing various saints. It's a calm and peaceful place. Arles, in Provence, in the south of France.
France 11 - Sunday Bastille market
This butcher's kiosk was part of a large outdoor market near the Place de la Bastille. The food looked great, though there was also a lot of crappy clothing and sundries for sale.
Aix en Provence France
You're going to find that the city of Aix-en-Provence in the south of France is one of the most delightful places you could ever visit as you’re about to discover out in this detailed movie.
We bring you on a detgailed walking tour of the large pedestrian zone with its charming historic buildings, many shops, cafés, restaurants and the very famous outdoor markets selling fresh produce, clothing, antiques and all kinds of stuff with lots of local characters to observe and interact with. This small city is the perfect size, big enough to keep you busy for several days and yet not too large that you're going to feel lost or frustrated that you can't see everything.
Aix is located in the heart of Provence, a region that has so many wonderful destinations from Avignon to Nice. And you will see that AIX is one place that you must not miss.
You could easily spend a few days here and travel out to visit other nearby destinations, or if you only have one day, it is certainly possible to see most of AIX as we’re going to show you in the movie.
Aix-en-Provence, France
Aix-en-Provence is so lovely that various French surveys have chosen it the most desirable city in which to live, due to the ambience of this special place. The modest population of just 150,000 residents gives it a small-town charm, yet Aix is big enough to provide all the necessities and comforts of urban living. Nearly 30 percent are university students, lending an air of youthful energy, culture and enthusiasm, plus you'll always find budget places to eat when there are so many young people around.
You'll most likely begin your explorations of Aix on the main street, which is also the first street you'll come to, Cours Mirabeau, the broad street established in 1651. Simply called the Cours, it is sometimes considered the most attractive boulevard in all France: lined with shops, outdoor cafés and restaurants in all price ranges along a wide sidewalk with magnificent plane trees towering overhead and three moss-covered fountains in the middle of the street.
You'll experience a human scale throughout town -- even the public buses are small, some are electric powered and very tiny for just a few passengers, providing excellent service.
Another attractive square is the Forum des Cardeurs, whose pastel façades surrounding the large central plaza, creating a distinctly Provençal atmosphere, enhanced by a row of outdoor restaurants. Cardeurs is often frequented by university students, and the local yuppie crowd out for lunch, so it's a prime spot to have a meal.
So you really have the best of all worlds. It's a sophisticated urban place, and yet it's a small city, so you've got all the amenities: the walking distance, you've got a shop on the corner you got the café around the bend. there's a bar, there are restaurants, outdoor plazas, fountains, beautiful boulevards, wonderful colors of the buildings, tree-lined streets -- what more could you possibly ask for? There's a mix here in population of University kids, there's older folks, there's working people, there's some immigrant vitality. You've got train stations that will take you to some nearby places that are wonderful, such as Arles and Marseille, you've got the entire Cote d'Azur you are just an hour or two away. And you're in Provence. This is the good life.
Uzès, France
Uzès, in Languedoc, France, is just to the west of Provence, typical of the region and a very charming town. The main street has got some little craft booths set up almost every day, the Old Town is a pedestrian zone, as usual you'll find in these beautiful villages in the south of France.
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There are some up-slopes and down-slopes, but it's a fairly level, small Old Town. The road around it follows the route of the original medieval fortified wall, so this is one of those limestone towns that is really well-preserved and the arcades around the main square create a wonderful ambience, a place to shop a place to eat and drink and just hang out.
This main square, Place aux Herbes, has been the center of Uzès ever since before the Roman days, back when it was a Gallic village. It's right in the heart of the Old Town, a fairly large space with these plane trees all around that were planted to provide shade. Sometimes in the summertime it’ll get hot but we're here in the fall and the weather is perfect. You can see it's shirtsleeve weather for some, the families are out but it's not a very crowded day. We’re here in the middle of the week. If you come on a Saturday there is a large outdoor market that takes place in the town, but on a weekday it's really pretty quiet, especially where you’re here in November.
And this main square is surrounded by the arcades, these kind of loggia with the cafés, with the shops. Originally in the seventeenth century it was wooden structures around the main square.
Limestone is a great building material in the area so it makes it convenient to construct these classic and immortal buildings. Nice fountain in the middle of the square. Just a place to relax. You want to just drop anchor here for a while and hang out, get a drink. There are nice restaurants around the square as well. And then of course there are the little streets that come into the square that are ideal for shopping and meandering.
Provence: Legendary Light, Wind, and Wine
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | We climb Roman ruins in Nîmes, explore a papal palace in Avignon, and savor vivid views immortalized by van Gogh in Arles. Crossing acres of lavender and wispy vineyards, we explore the Côtes du Rhône and more wonders of the south of France.
© 2004 Rick Steves' Europe
Aix en Provence Weekly Market
Donna Wadsworth of Savoury City Catering does her best Julia Child impersonation at Aix en Provence's weekly outdoor market
Aix-en-Provence, France - Kate Thornborough
C'est la vie en Provence! During her semester in Aix-en-Provence, Kate immersed herself by taking university courses in French, experienced open-air markets, and discovered she will never cook without Herbes De Provence.
Riez Market 1 - 1080p.mov
Tour the fantastic outdoor market in the nearby old Roman village of Riez, Haute Provence, in southern France.
Huge Paella in Arles, France
I did not wish to disturb the diners at this outdoor café restaurant in an alley in Arles, France, but this huge paella was too pretty to pass without making a clip. Arles is in the Bouches-du-Rhône département of France, in Provence, in the Camargue part. It is very close to the Mediterranean sea. This city has bullfights, Vincent Van Gogh painted here, and it has many huge Roman vestiges such as a necropole, an arena and an ampitheatre. It's the largest commune in France and a city of personality. You can walk to most things and the biggest market in the region takes place here every Saturday morning. A kind of refined party atmosphere is here, with people dressing up as Romans in the evenings and people riding Camargue horses in the streets. It is lively.
Aïoli is a specialty dish here, which is fish with vegetables in broth served with a strong garlic sauce. The Occitane language is still known here and one of the reasons this city remains a tourist favorite is that it has so much to offer culturally. I could barely see it in a week!
You'll never forget this if you visit it. The pace is a bit more relaxed than elsewhere in much of France, and though often buffeted by the mistral winds, usually it is warm and sunny here. This clip was made on a Sunday afternoon and although everything was very animated, there is quite a relaxed atmosphere here.
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2015.09.19 Market in Brindly Place Birmingham, England - 2
Sabrina and Dave explore the Market at Brindly Place Birmingham, England
The Story of the Pork-Butcher's Shop - Van Gogh - Paris
The movie shows you the apartment Van Gogh and his brother Theo lived, the cafe in Rue Lepic Paris, where Van Gogh made the sketch for this beautiful painting. And the Pork-Butcher's Shop nowadays. Van Gogh made the painting in Arles 1888.
Fremont Sunday Flea Street Market.
Fremont Sunday Flea Street Market. September, 2016.
Welcome to the Center of the Universe, Fremont. Seattle’s fun, year round European-style street market for brunching, vintage and treasure hunting, people watching, dog walking and one-of-a-kind amazingly cool stuff.
All Year Long: Rain or Shine!
The Fremont Sunday Street Market has an entire indoor area of antiques/used-items. There are also many artisans that sell their unique items in the outdoor section (especially dangerous for me in terms of beautiful, locally-created jewelry). There is even a poet who can write on any topic of choice! The food section for lunch has gotten bigger over the years.
Free street parking
Open Sundays from 10:00a - 5:00p year round
Located at the North End of the Fremont Bridge.
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