The great white limestone ridge east of Aix-en-Provence, painted more than 80 times by Paul Cézanne. The most popular walk climbs to the Croix de Provence and the old priory at the summit, about 2.5 hours up from the Bimont dam or Les Cabassols.
In summer, access to the massif can be closed on days of high fire risk; check before you go.
A spectacular road along the top of the highest sea cliffs in mainland France, from Cassis to La Ciotat.
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 Cris…
The most beautiful of the calanques, the narrow limestone inlets of the Calanques National Park between Marseille and Cassis.
The Valensole plateau in Provence is covered with lavender fields that turn the land purple from about late June to mid-July, with rows stretching to…
A hilltop village in the Luberon, painted in every shade of red, orange and yellow from the ochre quarried here for centuries.
One of the three Cistercian sister abbeys of Provence, built in the 12th century in a wooded valley, a masterpiece of pure, unadorned Romanesque arch…
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