Interactive Walk in Aix

         

        Bourg Saint Sauveur

        HOTEL DE CHATEAURENARD
        At n°19 is the Hôtel de Chateaurenard (1654) with its staircase painted with still lifes by Jean Daret.





        HOTEL MAYNIER D'OPPEDE
        The Hôtel Maynier d'Oppède (1757).





        PLACE DE L'ARCHEVECHE
        The old Archbishopric(1715), endowed with a Regency door, is now the Tapestry Museum and, in July, the International Festival of Lyrical Art and Music is held here.





        LA CATHEDRALE
        You arrive at the Cathedral, a monument composed of many elements from different eras, of which the oldest would be the wall, of Roman origin, situated to the right of the Norman. The Baptistery (4th-5th Centuries). In the gothic nave is the famous triptych "Buisson Ardent" by Nicolas Froment (1476).





        LE CLOITRE
        The Cloister (7th-8th).





        And now :
          Aix countryside
        or :
          Cours Mirabeau

         


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