Aix is located 5km away from Bouc Bel Air, 10 minutes away by car. City of water, city of art, in every one imagination the city has been built on this double identity and keeps on developing its. But Aix is also a city which combines different cultures. Opened on the world, it is a city where past heritage and city of tomorrow live together in harmony. Here, everything is colours and feelings: skylight, gold stone of facades, pure water of fountains, shadow of plane trees, festival nights surprises... Aix en Provence welcome you... A name which crosses time: Aquae sextiae, Ais in Provencou, Aix en Provence

Date of birth: 122 before JC

Area: 18 600 hectares

population: 137 067 inhabitants

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

SIGHTSEING : old medieval city, Mazarin area, Albertas square, Granet Museum, Paul Cézanne workshop...

SPECIALITIES : Calissons d'Aix (sweet 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, 2 of them are only 5 minutes away, 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)...

- MARSEILLE: At the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, garden of relics, Old harbour, museum of old charity, Valey of auffes, the islands of Frioul, the If castle and Monte - Cristo count up to Cassis, then Garlaban mountains and la Sainte Baume in 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: les Maures, l'Estérel, Hyeres, les îles d'or, Porcros, Porquerolles, and le Levant are underwater reservations and paradises without cars. Further, the beaches of saint Tropez, saint Raphael or Nice.

- HIGH PROVENCE: Way of lavender, small village of Moustiers, way of faïenciers, way of the Gorges du Verdon where one of the nicest canyons of the monde follows along green nephrite water of Verdon...

DAWDLING, SHOPPING, MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, FOUNTAINS, BASTIDES, WALKING AND HIKING...

Marseille is located about fifteen kilometres away from Bouc Bel Air.

The history of Marseille begins with a novel of love:Protis Phocean get married to Gyptis the ligure. A group of Greek navigators from Phocée, a harbour of Ionie, located in the other side 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.