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Aix is in 5km of Billy goat Nice Air, 10 minutes by car. City of water, city of art, in the imagination of each the city was built and always develops around this double identity. But Aix is also a city which knows how to conjugate epochs and cultures

 Opened on the world, cest a city in the human dimensions where live together in perfect harmony a preserved heritage and the city of tomorrow. Here, everything is colours and feelings: light of the sky, gold stone of facades, transparent green of fountains, shade of plane trees, surprises of the nights of festivals... Aix in Provence welcome you... A name which crosses epochs: Aquae sextiae, Ais in Provencou, Aix in Provence

Date of birth: 122 before

Area: 18 600 hectares

population: 137 067 inhabitants

Climate: privilégiè and soft climate. Aix is protected from northerly winds, she is not much attained by the Mistral.In winter, the sun is almost permanent. The dry summer is trés nice thanks to an uninterrupted light wind. The autumn is glorious and sunny. Every season has its charm as vacation in Aix in Provence.

To SEE: The old medieval city, the quarter Mazarin, the place of Albertas, the Museum Granet, the Paul Cézanne workshop...

To SUFFER: The calissons of Aix (speciality of the city), the oil of olive, cool chocolates of Puyricard, pomps with oil...

FOR THE AMATEURS OF GOLF: There are several golfs nearby, among which 2 in 5mn, the others are really in surroundings.

- Milles (18 holes),  Set Club (18 holes),  Fuveau (18 holes), Marseille Borely (9 holes),  La SAlette (Marseille 18 holes), Nans les Pins (18 holes),  Fregate Bandol (18 holes)...

- MARSEILLES: At the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, garden of relics, Old harbour, museum of old charity, Dale of offer, the islands of Frioul, the castle of Yew tree and anyway Monte - Cristo up to Blackcurrant, be able any case of the You and of the saint Baume fact heart of Provence of Pagnol.

- ARLES AND CAMARGUE: in 60 km of Aix, Arles is an advertising executive who is of benefit Provençal and in the wealth of its ancient heritage, the museum, arenae, the Cathedral, Horsebox Van foundation. Camargue with its saline and his marshes, horses and bulls flown by the pink flamans.

 FRENCH RIVIERA: Maures, estérel, hyeres, gold islands, Porquerolles, Taken in and raising it are underwater reservations and paradises without cars. Farther, the beaches of saint Tropez, saint Raphael or Nice.

HIGH PROVENCE: Way of lavender, small village of Moustiers, way of faïenciers, way of the Throats of Verdon where one of the nicest canyons of the monde follows alone green nephrite of Verdon...

DAWDLING, SHOPPINGS, MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, FOUNTAINS, BASTIDES, STEPS...

Marseilles is in about fifteen of kilométres of Billy goat Nice Air. The history of Marseilles begins spouse Gyptis with a novel of love:Protis Phocean the ligure. A group of Greek navigators, come from Phocée, a harbour of Ionie located in the other end of Mediterranean Sea,in Ease minor, discover a special harbour, barely visible of the outside, plan of 40 hectare water orientated of is in west and protected from winds by pendent hills. This disembarkation takes place the day chosen by the king Nann formarry his daughter Gyptis. She must even to it choose her future spouse and it is Protis that she tightens the nuptial cup. That's how Massalia in about 600 before J-C is born. The town centre is transformed, the canebière, which comes to there as a big place 250m long,becomes what which takes down up to the vieux harbour. It becomes the centre of business. Marseilles deserves that they stop there because it hides numerous treasures and its potential is huge. By its cultural heritage, the city is classified " city of art and history ".It also bénificie of an unique natural heritage. Of Callelongue, in the paces of the ends of the earth, by way of the Cornice dominating the sea and islands, in the hills which encircle it, no big city gives so many contrasts. Marseilles is the most ancient city of France.