Aix En Provence

This bright happy sunny and inviting Mediterranean city, bubbling with color and life embodies the charm of Mediterranean France. Go here to see where in Provence Aix En Provence is located.

It is famed as the city of art, keeping alive its French culture, heritage and tradition but differs from the other culture capitals of France in its geographical uniqueness. This town, founded by Roman consul Sextius Calvinus precisely for its thermal hot springs, is also known as the city of water.

If you are planning a visit to Southern France and Aix-En-Provence in particular, make sure you also have a look at our pages on Accommodation and Hotels in Aix En Provence and Food and Restaurants in Aix En Provence and also Attractions and Sights in Aix En Provence.

Located in the southern region of France, around 30 kilometers further north than the celebrated beach city of Marseilles, it is a small town of the Provence region. It happens to be a sub prefecture of the BOUCHES DU RHONE DEPARTMENT.

It is a city that has been erected over a number of hot springs. You can see the MONTAGNE SAINTE VICTOIRE lying to the east of the town. A plain that overlooks the ARC River on its right bank houses this town.

Aix is famous as the City Of Fountains and hot springs. In fact the numerous beautiful fountains - THE FOUNTAIN OF THE FOUR DOLPHINS, RENE AND MUSCAT GRAPES FOUNTAIN, THE ROMAN HOT WATER FOUNTAIN, THE PLACE DES TROIS ORMEAUX FOUNTAIN AND PLACE D’ALBERTAS FOUNTAIN - that dot the city have earned it this beautiful epithet.

Its other raison d’ etre are MUSEE GRANET, CHURCH OF SAINT JEAN DE MALTE, QUARTIER MAZARIN, THERMAL SPRINGS, ROMAN BATHS OF SEXTIUS, PALAIS DE JUSTICE, PALAISDES COMTES, and MEROVINGIAN BAPTISTERY, Cathedrale Saint Sauveur, Les Deux Garcons Cours Mirabeau.

If you are a lover of history and want the pages of history to come alive before your eyes, Aix is just the right place for you, being as it is a former seat of the ancient Roman empire and redolent of a past stretching from the Roman period, through the Renaissance and the Restoration down to the Victorian ages.