Rendez-vous of history, geography, man, nature, music and visual arts, pre-Roman sculpture in the Musée Granet, springs and fountains that from the beginning of time still murmur softly to themselves...

blending chance and design, a pastoral symphony, Cézanne, a poem merging recombinant molecules into a moment of grace... Aix, a meeting of the ways from the Mediterranean to the Alps, Rome to Arles and Spain, the Camargue to summer sheep pasture in the Alps, a major Roman spa, proud capital of Provence, center of a great university, and home to an International Music Festival, by-passed in the nineteeenth century by the Paris-Marseille railroad Aix slept a hundred years.

While its boisterous neighbour to the south, Marseille, fell prey to economic advantages, Aix retained and reclaimed important vestiges of its past, its mediaevaland post-Renaissance architecture...its integrity; immense modern residences on its south-south-western flanks are another world, invisible from the Cours Mirabeau, the Mazarin quarter, the cathedral Saint Sauveur, and the tranquil splendor of the route du Tholonet, Mount Sainte Victoire, the route de Vauvenargue and the route des Alpes. "Le vieil Aix", like its past, is preserved, its spirit intact…

 

 
La Haute Ribière, Cabinet Immobilier, 35 rue Boulegon (close to Bellegarde parking lot)
13100 Aix-en-Provence - France
 
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