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Things To Do: The Cours Mirabeau
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  • Created in 1649 and refurbished just this year, the majestic tree-lined Cours Mirabeau is often described as the most beautiful street in France. Well, it is pretty, but not as wonderful as all that. It's not even the most beautiful in Aix, really, but it is the Main Street in many ways.
    Coming from the Rotonde in high summer, you will find the Cours a welcome break from the beating sunlight, with it's shady plane trees. On the left hand side of the street is the bustle, for this is where the cafes are. Pass Le Festival, and you have Le Bistro Roman, and Movenpick ice creams (they do marvellous, if small, milkshakes - get the Tequila Sunrise one. Mmmwwaah!). This is the heart of chic Aix, the bourgeois capital of the south. Further on is Monoprix, the supermarket, outside of which can be found a fat but much-loved crepes man (with a match in his mouth, always), who in the winter swaps the crepes for roasted chestnuts, whose smell will drive you crazy! Next is the Librairie de Provence, a grand bookshop which sells foreign magazines and newspapers. Further up is Quick, the fast food restaurant that is Really Slow (see my Belgium pages for explanations!!). Les Deux Garcons, where Cezanne used to drink, is just a bit further up, and at the end is the Papeterie Michel, which sells stationary and cards and art materials for all. Aix is really a town for the artist in you.
    Up and down the centre of the Cours are a series of fountains, very small, very old. The one outside Monoprix is covered in moss, but further up is one that may be even mossier, but brings forth warm water - this is part of Aix's legacy as a thermal spa town, whose history goes back to the Roman times.
    On the other side of the Cours, the southern side which borders the classy Quartier Mazarin, can be found banks, not cafes. However, if you fancy watching a film, there is the Renoir cinema, which shows films in VO (original language).

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    Things To Do: The Cathedrale St.Sauveur
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  • In the north of the town is the golden and surprising cathedral. Make your way through crowds of American students, who take courses at the American school opposite, and you will find architecture featuring just about every major period from the fifth to the eighteenth centuries. It is a calm wonder inside, and it's huge colourful walls are lit by subtle, colourful windows. It is worth coming here just before Christmas, when there are choral services for the English and American communities. Just below, in "La Cave", there are regular social gatherings celebrating the various cultures of the world, represented by foreign students in Aix. This takes place every Tuesday.

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    Things To Do: The best place to kiss your lover
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  • Aix is full of pretty, romantic spots, where the evening closes in like it does in films. But nowhere is like the Place d'Albertas. With it's pretty central fountain, which to be fair is no more than a big bird-bath, this cobbled courtyard, enclosed on three sides by old rococo walls, is usaully lit up by the evening, and in summer hosts live music. But if you meet your date here before you set off for a meal at La Pizza or somewhere, then love will surely be in the air. Ah yes..!

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    Directions: Follw rue Espariat from the Rotonde, and it is on the right past rue Aude.
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    Comments for rickyvilla81 about Aix-en-Provence
    ForestqueenNYC Mon Dec 11, 2006 03:04 UTC
     Update on John Malkovich. I was in Aix last January and a friend of mine who works at the travel agency near the Monoprix on the Cours told me that JM no longer lives there. He may have moved to Paris, but I have also heard he'd moved to Boston.
    tini58de Wed May 31, 2006 07:56 UTC
     Rickie, I returned to your great page - this time because we booked a flight to Marseille and I am looking for info on where to base ourselves: Aix or Marseille! You got ME convinced already! Thanks!
    RickinDutch Thu Oct 27, 2005 00:35 UTC
     Well done - thanks for taking the time to share such great info/photos. Cheers!
    rwlittle Fri Feb 4, 2005 04:56 UTC
     What camera did you use to take that photo??? ;)
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