Visit Saint Rémy de Provence
Saint
Rémy de Provence is a town of the Alpilles, dynamic
and typically Provençal, located in the Bouches-du-Rhone twenty
kilometers south of Avignon . A stone's throw from the present
town spread the ruines of a Roman city, Glanum, which you can see the
mausoleum and the arc of thriomphe along the road up to the Alpilles.
Saint Remy de Provence has a rich and interesting is a place of memory
and tradition of Provence. The painter Vincent Van Gogh lived for nearly
a year in Saint Paul de Mausole, a monastery which houses a psychiatric
hospital, and he painted many paintings inspired by the surrounding landscape.
Saint Remy de Provence is known for its bullfights that take place around
August 15.
