18 Sights in Arles, France (with Map and Images)
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Sightseeing Tours in ArlesActivities in Arles1. Église Saint-Césaire
The church of Saint-Césaire, in Arles, is today the only parish still consecrated in the Roquette district. It is in fact the former conventual church of the Great Augustinians, disused and sold as national property during the Revolution, bought back and returned to worship under this new name after the Concordat. It is located in the centre of the district, on Place Saint-Césaire, between Rue de la Roquette to the north-west, Rue Théophile-Rives to the south-west and Rue Parade to the north-east. It has been listed as a historical monument since 19 March 2014.
2. Cathédrale Saint-Trophime d'Arles
The Church of St. Trophime (Trophimus) is a Roman Catholic church and former cathedral located in the city of Arles, in the Bouches-du-Rhône Department of southern France. It was built between the 12th century and the 15th century, and is in the Romanesque architectural tradition. The sculptures over the church's portal, particularly the Last Judgement, and the columns in the adjacent cloister, are considered some of the finest examples of Romanesque sculpture.
3. Pont de Constantin
From the earliest antiquity, perhaps even before the Roman occupation, a bridge must have connected the city of Arles to the Camargue. It is impossible today to say what place this first bridge occupied and how it was built. It was probably followed by the first Roman bridge, built in or shortly after the Augustan period. But the Roman bridge, of which some remains can still be seen, dates back to the time of Constantine. It is also referred to as a boat bridge.
4. Palais de Luppé
The Palais de Luppé is a mansion located at n ° 26 of the Arena roundabout in Arles. Edified in the 17th century, it housed a factory before being bought and renovated at the beginning of the 20th century by Jean-Amédée Gibert, on behalf of the buyer, the sculptor Gaston de Luppé (1872-1939). The building, which has always belonged to the descendants of Gaston de Luppé since the latter's death, was occupied for 21 years by the Van Gogh Foundation.
5. Chaland Arles-Rhône 3
Arles Rhône 3 is an ancient Roman boat discovered in 2004, with parts of it only 13 feet (3.96 m) below the surface in the Rhône River of Arles, France. In the 1st century AD, it had been a 102 feet (31.09 m) long river trading vessel. It has been displayed since 2013 at the Musée départemental Arles antique. A marble Neptune was also discovered in the river, and divers recovered many amphorae. The boat’s flat bottom was made of oak planks.
6. Site archéologique de la Verrerie de Trinquetaille
The archaeological site of the Trinquetaille glassware in Trinquetaille has been acquired by the town council of Arles in 1978. It has been subject to archaeological excavations in the 1980s, and later since 2013, led by the Archaeology services of the Musée Départemental Arles Antique and the Inrap, along with the contribution of the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, the CNRS, the university and independent researchers.
Wikipedia: Archaeological site of the Trinquetaille glassware (EN)
7. Accueil Théâtre antique d'Arles
The Roman Theatre of Arles is a 1st-century Roman theatre, built during the reign of Caesar Augustus. It is located next to the Arles Amphitheatre in the city of Arles, Provence, France. Along with the other Roman and medieval buildings in Arles, the theatre was listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments site for their testimony to the ancient history of the city.
8. Nécropole des Alyscamps
The Alyscamps is a large Roman necropolis, which is a short distance outside the walls of the old town of Arles, France. It was one of the most famous necropolises of the ancient world. The name comes from the Provençal Occitan word Aliscamps, which comes from the Latin Elisii Campi. They were famous in the Middle Ages and are referred to by Ariosto in Orlando Furioso and by Dante in the Inferno.
9. Église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul
The church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Mouleyrès, founded in the fifth century in Arles, destroyed and rebuilt in the sixteenth century, was initially part of the Alyscamps cemetery with the chapel of La Genouillade and the church of Saint-Honorat. It was separated from it first by the digging of the Craponne Canal and then, later and more radically, by the gap in the SNCF workshops.
Wikipedia: Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Mouleyrès (FR)
10. Hôtel Particulier de Barrême
The Hôtel de Barrême, in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), located at 11 rue de Barrême and on the corner with the rue Frédéric Mistral, is a vast private mansion from the end of the first half of the seventeenth century, with an architecture similar to that of the Hôtel Laurens de Beaujeu at the southern end of the same rue Frédéric Mistral.
11. Église Sainte-Anne d'Arles
The Church of St. Anne, or formerly Notre-Dame-la-Principale, was the first parish of Roman Catholic rite in the city centre of Arles, France. Unassigned after the Revolution, used to house the lapidary museum of the city, it is listed as historical monuments in the 1875 list and now serves as a place of exhibitions.
12. Chapelle de la Charité
The Chapel of Charity, in Arles, is part of a larger complex: the Carmelite convent, which is difficult to identify today because it was transformed into a luxury hotel in 1928. Well preserved because it was used as a theatre for the hotel, it now belongs to the municipality, which uses it for temporary exhibitions.
13. Abbatiale Notre-Dame
Montmajour Abbey, formally the Abbey of St. Peter in Montmajour, was a fortified Benedictine monastery built between the 10th and 18th centuries on what was originally an island five kilometers north of Arles, in what is now the Bouches-du-Rhône Department, in the region of Provence in the south of France.
14. Pont Van-Gogh
Langlois Bridge was a double-beam drawbridge in Arles, France, which was the subject of several paintings by Vincent van Gogh in 1888. Being one of eleven drawbridges built by a Dutch engineer along the channel from Arles to Port-de-Bouc, this bridge might have reminded the artist of his homeland.
15. Église des Carmes Déchaussés
The church of the Discalced Carmelites, in Arles, is the only vestige of the convent built in 1649 by the members of the monastic order, reformed by Saint John of the Cross, of the Discalced Carmelites. Of this church, only the north façade is now accessible and of architectural interest.
16. Ancienne abbaye d'Ulmet
The Abbey of Ulmet was a Cistercian abbey that no longer exists, founded in 1173 in the Camargue, about 25 km from Arles, near a pond, the Etang de Fournelet, which still exists, and a branch of the Rhône, the Rhône d'Ulmet, which has now landed.
17. Temple de la Rotonde
The Protestant Temple of Arles, known as La Rotonde d'Arles, is a Reformed Protestant place of worship located at 9 rue de la Rotonde in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône. The parish is attached to the United Protestant Church of France.
18. Église Saint-Julien
The Church of Saint-Julien d'Arles is an old church of the twelfth century, then known as Saint-Antoine and rebuilt in 1622 in classical and late Gothic style. Since 1941, the building has been listed as a historical monument.
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