A fortress on a tiny island in the bay of Marseille, built by François I and later a prison, made famous by Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo. You can see the cells, including those linked to Dumas's characters Edmond Dantès and the Abbé Faria.
Take the boat from the Vieux Port; the trip gives great views back to Marseille and Notre-Dame de la Garde. Combine with the Frioul islands.
The most beautiful of the calanques, the narrow limestone inlets of the Calanques National Park between Marseille and Cassis.
A spectacular road along the top of the highest sea cliffs in mainland France, from Cassis to La Ciotat.
The great white limestone ridge east of Aix-en-Provence, painted more than 80 times by Paul Cézanne.
The ruins of a Greek and Roman town at the foot of the Alpilles hills, with temples, baths, a forum and houses.
A hilltop village in the Luberon, painted in every shade of red, orange and yellow from the ochre quarried here for centuries.
A great Benedictine abbey on a rocky hill outside Arles, with a Romanesque church, a cloister with carved capitals and a fortified tower.
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