Itinerary · 6 days · 27 places
6 Days in Provence
Six days from Aix-en-Provence across the flowering plateau near Valensole and the Verdon Gorge to the Luberon — lavender fields in the morning, ochre villages in the evening.
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The plan, day by day
Day 1Arriving in Aix-en-Provence
Arrival in Aix-en-Provence
Hotel check-in
The Quartier Mazarin south of the Cours Mirabeau is the quiet 17th-century aristocratic district, from where everything is within walking distance.
Quartier Mazarin & Fontaine des Quatre Dauphins
Grid-pattern streets lined with town mansions and the small dolphin-fountain crossroads of 1667, where four fish spout water.
Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur
In the cathedral a Romanesque nave, a Gothic nave and the Burning Bush triptych stand side by side, along with a cloister of carved capitals.
Evening: Cours Mirabeau
In the evening the plane-tree avenue with its mossy fountains is the city's stage — terraces, street music and the warm mossy fountain halfway along.
Day 2Cézanne's Aix
Market on Place Richelme
Every morning, stalls of goat's cheese, olives, Cavaillon melons and lavender honey set up beneath the plane trees.
Atelier de Cézanne
The garden studio above the town is just as Cézanne left it in 1906 — coat, skull and fruit bowls still lie on the table.
Musée Granet
The former priory of the Knights of Malta holds nine Cézannes as well as the Planque collection with Picasso, Van Gogh and Giacometti.
Pavillon de Vendôme
A Baroque pleasure house with atlantes at the doorway and a strictly clipped French garden where you can sit in the shade.
Fondation Vasarely
Sixteen black-and-white hexagonal halls with the room-sized Op Art murals Victor Vasarely designed specifically for this building.
Evening: Place des Cardeurs
In the evening the long square behind the town hall is one continuous row of terraces where locals linger until late.
Day 3Lavender plateau & Moustiers
Onward to Moustiers-Sainte-Marie
Hotel check-in
Lavender fields on the D953 near Puimoisson
Here the purple rows run to the horizon, broken only by the odd holm oak and the beekeepers' white hives.
Old town of Moustiers-Sainte-Marie
Narrow stepped lanes beneath two rock cliffs, with the faience workshops the village has been known for since the 17th century in between.
Chapelle Notre-Dame de Beauvoir
262 steps lead to the cliffside chapel above the village, near which the famous chain with the gilded star hangs between the cliffs.
Musée de la Faïence
A small museum in the old bishop's house showing white-glazed plates with hunting scenes and grotesques from four centuries.
Evening: Étoile de Moustiers from the village square
When darkness falls, the illuminated star seems to hang freely over the gorge — you see it best from the square by the parish church.
Day 4Verdon Gorge & a turquoise lake
Sainte-Croix-du-Verdon by the lake
From the village a short path leads to a shallow pebble cove where the glacial-milk turquoise water still lies mirror-smooth in the morning.
Pont du Galetas
Beneath the bridge the mouth of the gorge opens up; by kayak or pedalo you paddle in between the 300-metre-high walls.
Falaise des Cavaliers
This viewing balcony on the Corniche Sublime stands 300 metres sheer above the Verdon, which winds through the ravine here like a green ribbon.
Balcons de la Mescla
From the lookout you see the bend where the Artuby and the Verdon meet, with the arched Pont de l'Artuby spanning the gorge right next to it.
Aiguines: village above the lake
The Renaissance château with its colourful tiled turrets and the old turnery for boxwood balls stand high above the Lac de Sainte-Croix.
Evening: Rue Marcel Provence
Moustiers' main lane stays lively until late: lit faience displays, a splashing fountain and the stream running through the village.
Day 5Luberon: Sénanque, Gordes, ochre
Onward to Gordes
Hotel check-in
Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque
In front of the bare Cistercian church of 1148 lies the lavender field that the monks still cut and distil themselves.
Village of Gordes
Limestone-white houses are stacked in terraces around the castle and church, with cobbled calades running down the slope between them.
Village des Bories
Twenty windowless dry-stone huts with corbelled vaults, where farmers housed sheep, tools and themselves until the 19th century.
Roussillon: Sentier des Ocres
A circular trail through the disused ochre quarries, whose rock pinnacles glow in seventeen shades of red, orange and yellow.
Evening: Belvédère over Gordes
From the viewpoint on the D15 you see the floodlit village standing like an illuminated pyramid above the dark valley.
Day 6Sources of the Sorgue & flight home
Fontaine-de-Vaucluse
At the foot of a 230-metre cliff, France's most powerful karst spring emerges from a funnel, while the old paper mill with its water wheel works beside it.
L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue: water wheels & antiques courtyards
The town sits on islands in the Sorgue; moss-covered mill wheels turn between the antique dealers' courtyards.
Departure from Marseille
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