Defining the country around Les Alpilles

Let’s attempt to sketch a small region’s character (granted, each aspect lightly touched hereafter, is worth much more attention).
The region’s limits are somewhat arbitrary, or mostly a matter of feelings.
It extends around Les Alpilles with Les-Baux-de-Provence and its small valley, includes the Saint-Remy-de-Provence plain, to the North, part of the plain traversed by the [...]

Les Alpilles and Les Bouches-du-Rhône

Even when you know what you love about a place, it can be difficult to pinpoint what is absolutely specific to that place, and distinguish that from features inherited from the surrounding region.
Les Alpilles can be said to be a geological accident, in sharp contrast with the Northern plains of the Bouches-du-Rhône, and right in [...]

Les Baux-de-Provence and les Alpilles

If you plan to visit the western part of the Provence region in southern France, known as “les Bouches-du-Rhône”, you will not want to miss the site called les Baux-de-Provence.
“Les Baux”, for short, is a tiny village on the top of a large, somewhat tabular white rock, which it shares with the ruins of a [...]

Talking around Les Alpilles

” In the summer, one will at once love the light and the burnt heath scent from the pinewoods but, to become attached, you have to go
further to the heart.
Take a break on the market place in Maillane and cool off in a café, buy bread at the lovely baker’s in Maussane, go full circle [...]

Les baux de Provence France – introduction

Les baux de Provence France introduction, one of the most adored regions of France

Les Alpilles – in Provence France

    

Chateau les Alpilles

Chateau les Alpilles, Les Alpilles France information

Mas Blanc les Alpilles

Mas Blanc les Alpilles is a part of Bouches du Rhone, located in Provence, France.

Moniquet Art Design

About the work and art of Jacques Moniquet

Les Alpilles and Art

However difficult it can be, one should try to understand the reason why so many artists have been attracted to this region, and still are.

    

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