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Cadagon Guide to Provence

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction The Best of Provence Travel Getting There By Air By Train By Coach By Car Entry Formalities Passports and Visas Health and Travel Insurance Getting Around By Train By Bus By Car By Boat By Bicycle On Foot Special-interest Holidays

Practical A-Z Climate Consulates Crime and the Police Disabled Travellers Environment Festivals Food and Drink Health and Emergencies Money and Banks Opening Hours, Museums and National Holidays National Holidays Post Offices and Telephones Racism Shopping Sports and Leisure Activities Tourist Information Where to Stay

History The First Million years of So Roman Provincia 60 Years of Uninvited Guests The Beginnings of the Middle Ages Provencal Medieval Civilization The Coming of French Rule The Wars of Religion An Unwanted Revolution Rural Decay and Recovery Art and Architecture Prehistoric and Pre-Roman Gallo-Roman: 3rd Century BC-AD 4th Century Early Christian and Dark Ages: 5th-10th Centuries Gothic and Renaissance: 14th-16th Centuries The Age of Bad Taste: 17th-18th Centuries France's Little Ice Age: late 18th-mid-19th Centuries Revolutions in Seeing: 1850-the Present

Topics A Country Calendar Mistral and the Felibrige Hocus Pocus Popes Marcel Pagnol and the Provencal Mystique Troubadours Up your Nose The Village Sociologist Wide open Spaces Aioli Recipe Down the Rhone: Orange to Tarascon Orange South of Orange: Chateauneuf-du-Pape Avignon Villeneuve-les-Avignon Tarascon

Down the Rhone: Alpilles, Crau and Camargue St-Remy-de-Provence and the Alpilles Les Baux-de-Provence and the Chaine des Alpilles Arels Plaine de la Crau Into the Camargue Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer St-Gilles-du-Gard Aigues-Mortes Metropolitan Provence La Ciotat, Cassis and the Calaques Marseille West of Marseille: Chaine de l'Estaque & the Etang de Berre Aix-en-Provence Northern Provence: the Vaucluse Down the Durance The Luberon Northern Luberon: Along the N 100 >From Cavaillon to Carpentras Carpentraas Mont Ventoux Les Dentelles de Montmirail Vaison-la-Romaine

Provencal Alps The Alpes-Maritimes The Vallee de la Roya West of Sospel: The Paillon Valley The Valleys of the Vesubie and the Tinee The Alpes de Haute-Provence >From Grasse to Aix Off the Motorway from Draguignan to AixBeaches on the Cote d'Azur Terms, Chronology, Language, Further Reading Index Maps Provence Approaches to Provence Orange to Tarascon Avignon Alpilles, Crau and Camargue Arles Marseille and Metropolitan Provence Marseille Aix-en-Provence Northern Provence The Alpes de Provence