The region
Aix en Provence and its region are full of exceptional sites, a renowned heritage and world-renowned cultural, economic and sporting activities. Take the time to stop there for several days. It is the ideal base for exploring the surrounding Provence, which offers some of the most beautiful landscapes within a few kilometers: the Sainte Victoire mountain, the Calanques, the Luberon, the Camargue..
You will be touched by the Cézanne road and its magnificent panoramas, the powerful landscapes of the great site Concors Sainte-Victoire, these small villages where nest the workshops of artists and craftsmen. The sites will enchant you with this so particular light, their colors, the odors, with the wire of your excursions in the massifs and the Mediterranean forest.
Discover Provence with its sparkling blue lavender fields, the sweetness of the almond trees in bloom, the intensity of the ochre rocks and the green gradation of the small oaks and pines... Here the beauty of nature explodes with colors. From the chain of the Côtes to the chain of the Touloubre, from the high valley of the Arc to the valley of the Durance, a great territory is offered to you and is lived all year long.
Go and discover these wonders!
Want to go for a walk, Sports and outdoor activities
Grand site Concors Sainte Victoire - The Sainte Victoire Mountain is accessible from several parking lots. The nearest parking lot by car is the one at the Bimont dam. Numerous sports activities await you, whatever your level or your desires: hiking, orienteering, cycling, mountain biking, climbing, horseback riding, golf. Local or international sports events await you, such as the Ironman 70.3 du Pays d'Aix, the Pays d'Aix CEPAC Open.
Around Aix en Provence
The charming villages near the Sainte Victoire mountain: Vauvenargues and
its castle
(Picasso's last residence), Le Tholonet and the Cézanne road, Beaurecueil, Saint Antonin-sur-Bayon, Puyloubier, Trets, Jouques, Ansouis, West and North of Aix en Provence: Eguilles, Ventabren and the Aqueduct of Roquefavour, Puyricard, Le Puy Sainte Réparade, Rognes.