Saint Rémy de ProvenceSet in the rolling Alpilles hills south of Avignon, Saint Rémy de Provence is one of the region's favourite holiday destinations, with its pretty old town, boulevard cafés, many colourful festivals and traditions and two important tourist sights, the huge Roman ruins of Glanum and Saint Paul de Mausole, the monastery / clinic where Vincent van Gogh spent the last year of his life and painted some of his greatest works. You can read about all this and more below in our guides to the town, to Saint Paul and to another of Saint Rémy's most popular attractions, its superb Wednesday morning street market. Click here to book a hotel in Saint Rémy de Provence
Embraced by a wide, leafy boulevard, the lazily charming old town of Saint Rémy is a maze of winding streets, cafés, squares and fountains with two exceptional attractions on its edge.
Provence is not exactly short of street markets but the very large and varied one on Wednesday morning in Saint Rémy is renowned as exceptional.
Near the end of his life Vincent van Gogh painted some of his greatest works at Saint Paul de Mausole, a beautiful eleventh century monastery converted into a psychiatric clinic. |
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