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Fontaine de La Rotonde
10m
Look up at three marble women above a fountain built before Aix secured its reliable water supply.
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10m
Pause at a former synagogue to hear about a pastor facing an impossible wartime choice.
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Pass by
Look beyond the mansion façade for a concierge’s wartime secret and a bride’s abruptly altered future.
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5m
Meet two schoolboys whose friendship began here, with bullies, ambition and a much-debated basket of apples.
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Fontaine des Quatre-Dauphins
5m
Study four stone dolphins for clues to the powerful family behind Aix’s carefully planned mansion district.
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5m
Find the birthplace of a marquis whose unusual calling led him toward bulls and white horses.
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Eglise Saint-Jean-de-Malte
10m
Look up at the Hospitallers’ church, where missing bells connect a revolutionary war with a modern search.
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Musee Granet
Pass by
Trace Cézanne’s early drawing lessons and a painted mother’s extraordinary request to the ruler of the gods.
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Fontaine du Roi Rene
10m
Examine the grapes in King René’s hand and hear the wedding legend behind an Aix sweet.
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Passage Agard
10m
Enter a narrow shopping passage where a stubborn neighbour and a royal burial complicate the ground beneath.
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10m
Study two straining stone giants for clues to a cloth merchant’s pursuit of noble status.
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5m
Search the moss-covered thermal fountain for traces of the sculpted figures hidden beneath its green coat.
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5m
Examine Aix’s three-layered calisson at a family pastry shop with a workshop behind the window.
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Place d'Albertas
5m
Survey a judge’s carefully staged square and ask what stood in the way of his view.
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5m
Study Cézanne’s bronze profile above a fountain whose displaced waters connect two old-town streets.
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Halle aux Grains
Pass by
Look for a river’s protruding foot above the grain hall, then consider the hunger behind its grandeur.
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Pass by
Find the wooden season beneath the clock and hear why changing it requires someone with keys.
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5m
Look at shell-shaped madeleines and hear the kitchen-disaster legend behind the little cake’s name.
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Hotel de Chateaurenard
Pass by
Look beyond a diamond-studded doorway for the painted staircase that caught Louis XIV’s attention.
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Cathedrale St. Sauveur
15m
Read the cathedral’s changing stonework, then follow King René’s connection to a painting of a burning bush.
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Musee des Tapisseries
Pass by
Search an archbishop’s carved doorway for clues linking a French marshal with a Scandinavian throne.
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Pass by
Face the courthouse columns and piece together the vanished palace and neighbourhood beneath this civic monument.
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Pass by
Read five names beside a family doorway where Resistance messages and a secret radio once converged.
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Pass by
Read a Provençal plaque marking the day revolutionary violence reached a lawyer’s front door.
