Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Arles, France
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7 km
119 m
Explore Arles in France with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in ArlesIndividual Sights in ArlesSight 1: Buste de César
The Arles bust is a life-sized marble bust of a man, possibly Julius Caesar, dating to around the 1st century BC. It is part of the collection of the Musée de l'Arles antique.
Sight 2: Cirque romain
The Roman Circus of Arles is the largest Roman building in the city; It was built in 149. It has been classified as a historical monument since 1992.
Sight 3: 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.
Sight 4: 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.
Sight 5: Hôtel de Lestang-Parade
The Hôtel de Lestang-Parade in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) is a private mansion built around 1740 for the de Lestang-Parade family.
Sight 6: 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.
Sight 7: Église des Frères Prêcheurs
The Church of the Dominicans of Arles is an old Gothic-style church built at the end of the fifteenth century and now disused.
Sight 8: Cryptoportiques d'Arles - Emplacement de l'Ancien Forum
The Arles Forum, located in the city of Arles, in France, is the first major urban achievement around 30-20 BC. AD of the Roman colony founded in 46 BC. To thank Arelate for his support for Caesar.
Sight 9: Obélisque d'Arles
The Obélisque d'Arles is a 4th-century Roman obelisk, erected in the center of the Place de la République, in front of the town hall of Arles, France.
Sight 10: 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.
Sight 11: 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.
Sight 12: 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.
Sight 13: 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.
Sight 14: 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.
Sight 15: 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.
Sight 16: 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.
Sight 17: La Maison Jaune de Van Gogh
The Yellow House, alternatively named The Street, is an 1888 oil painting by the 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.
Sight 18: Église Notre-Dame de la Major
Sight 19: 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)
Sight 20: Parc des Ateliers
Luma Arles is an arts center in Arles, France, featuring a 15,000 square meter tower building designed by the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry for the LUMA Foundation. For the building Gehry took some of his inspiration from the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh hoping to catch the light Dutch artist sought in the South of France, specifically as in Starry Night which was painted in Arles in 1889. The skin of the building features 11,000 angled reflective stainless steel panels.
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