Arles in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region
Saturday, 16 May 2015 - 12:43 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General , French Riviera , UNESCO World Heritage
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Arles is a city and commune in the south of France, in the
Bouches-du-Rhône department , of which it is a subprefecture, in the former
province of Provence . As part of the cultural initiative of the European Union’s
European Capital of Culture , Arles is one of the convention and exhibition venues of Marseille-Provence 2013.
The Rhône river forks into two branches just upstream of Arles, forming the Camargue delta. Because the Camargue is for a large part administratively part of Arles, the commune as a whole is the largest commune in Metropolitan France in terms of territory, although its population is only slightly more than 50,000. Its area is 758.93 km2 (293.02 sq mi), which is more than seven times the area of Paris .
European Capital of Culture map Marseille-Provence 2013 © arlestourisme.com
This made it an attractive destination for the painter
Vincent van Gogh , who arrived there on 21 February 1888. He was fascinated by the Provençal landscapes, producing over 300 paintings and drawings during his time in Arles. Many of his most famous paintings were completed there, including
The Night Cafe , the
Yellow Room ,
Starry Night Over the Rhone , and
L’Arlésienne .
Paul Gauguin visited van Gogh in Arles. However, van Gogh’s mental health deteriorated and he became alarmingly eccentric, culminating in the infamous ear-severing incident in December 1888 which resulted in two stays in the
Old Hospital of Arles . The concerned Arlesians circulated a petition the following February demanding that van Gogh be confined. In May 1889 he took the hint and left Arles for the
Saint-Paul asylum at nearby
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence .
A well known photography festival,
Rencontres d’Arles , takes place in Arles every year, and the French national school of photography is located there.
Bull fights are conducted in the
amphitheatre , including Provençal-style bullfights (
courses camarguaises ) in which the bull is not killed but rather a team of athletic men attempt to remove a tassle from the bull’s horn without getting injured. Every Easter and on the first weekend of September, Arles also holds Spanish-style
corridas (in which the bulls are killed) with an
encierro (bull-running in the streets) preceding each fight.
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