segunda-feira, 8 de setembro de 2014

Arles - South of france

Arles

Arriving in the city, after the "trauma of Agvinon", we parked the car outside the wall. As it was Sunday there was no need to pay the parking meter.

Entrance of the city
At the information center we took a map. In old downtown you do everything on foot. We decided to start by Van Gogh Foundation, a cultural center which was _ the Hôtel de Dieu, the psychiatric hospital where Van Gogh was hospitalized after cutting his ear. Has few screens of Van Gogh, I thought that would have more information, let me down a bit.


Entrance of Van Gogh Museum

Are located near the ruins of the Thermes de Constantin.
We walk around the Place du Forum, famous for having a coffee shop that Van Gogh painted with several other coffee shops and restaurants. We stopped for a meal
Place du Forum


Street of cofee

After we headed out to Théâtre Antique.

Théâtre Antique 

After that we went to the Amphitheatre, there was a typical show with horses and people dressed old-fashioned. We watched until the end.


Event Poster

Amphithéâtre

Then we took a walk on the boardwalk on the shore of the Rhône river. Then we direct to the car and returned to Aix by secondary roads, we passed through small and beautiful villages (Les Baux-de-Provence and Saint-Rémy-de-Provence)