Restaurants around Aix-en-Provence serve up flavorful Mediterranean cuisine with chefs utilizing the fresh, local ingredients found at the markets in their menus. Popular plates you'll have to try ...

A popular brasserie, located right on Cours Mirabeau, Les Deux Garçons has served coffee to everyone from Paul Cézanne to Emile Zola. It's been a prominent place for artists and intellectuals since ...

For 2,500 years Aix has been famous for its location and climate. Throughout history occupiers from all directions were drawn like moths to the beautiful light that holds the town, streets, buildings ...

Westminster Abbey, the Eiffel Tower, the Sistine Chapel — these are some of the reasons you came to Europe. They’re also why millions of other tourists are here as well. Nothing kills a sightseeing ...

Not everything was an artistic or audience success at the 75th Aix-en-Provence Festival in France. But everything was worth discussing. By Joshua Barone Joshua Barone attended a week of opera and ...

Before his death, Paul Cézanne offered 100 of his paintings to the art museum in Aix-en-Provence, the city in southern France where he was born and lived for more than 40 years. Despite hosting the ...

Anne Elder “fell in love with France somewhere between Madeline and Moulin Rouge.” After studying abroad in Paris, the life-long Francophile migrated south and found a home in Aix–en–Provence, France.

There’s something about Paris and the South of France—specifically Aix-en-Provence—that tends to attract the world’s most acclaimed creatives. After all, Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer admitted ...