Regional guide
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
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Ideas to get you started
Available guides: 9
Ideas to get you started
A selection of city guides to help you choose your base.
Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence combines Roman origins and a long thermal tradition with streets shaped largely between the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century. Its old centre, Cours Mirabeau and Quartier Mazarin …
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Arles
Arles, in Bouches-du-Rhône, has an unusually visible span of history. Roman monuments sit close to medieval Saint-Trophime and the seventeenth-century town hall, while the wider area reaches towards M…
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Avignon
Avignon’s streets, squares and monuments still reflect the period when the city was a centre of Western Christianity. The compact historic core brings the Palais des Papes, the cathedral and the Rhône…
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Cannes
Cannes is closely associated with cinema and grand hotels, but its older streets, harbour and offshore islands tell a broader story. The former fishing village began to expand during the nineteenth ce…
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Digne-les-Bains
Digne-les-Bains lies where Alpine landscapes meet Provence. Its visitor sites are unusually varied: two cathedrals reveal successive layers of religious history, museums connect art with the natural s…
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Gap
Gap stands on the Route Napoléon, close to the mountain landscapes of Écrins National Park. Its old centre is characterised by narrow streets, small squares and houses with warm-coloured façades, whil…
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Places to Visit in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
The regional directory is arranged by department, with city pages grouped beneath the relevant area. The directory entry names nine destinations: Marseille, Nice, Cannes, Toulon, Arles, Avignon, Digne-les-Bains, Gap and Aix-en-Provence.
Choose a department
Start with one of the six department pages below. Each link stays within the English travel directory and leads to the next level of destination listings.
- Alpes-Maritimes: continue to Nice and Cannes.
- Bouches-du-Rhône: continue to Marseille, Arles and Aix-en-Provence.
- Var: continue to Toulon.
- Vaucluse: continue to Avignon.
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence: continue to Digne-les-Bains.
- Hautes-Alpes: continue to Gap.
Using the directory
The directory entry presents these places as a navigation index rather than a ranking. Choose the department associated with the city you want to examine, then use its local listing to reach the individual destination page.
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