Complete travel guide to the South of France — highlights and practical info: - Visit Aix-en-Provence on a Thursday to catch three markets in one day. - See lavender fields in June or July; be ...

Restaurants around Aix-en-Provence serve up flavorful Mediterranean cuisine with chefs utilizing the fresh, local ingredients found at the markets in their menus. Popular plates you'll have to try ...

Paul Cezanne, Les Joueurs de cartes, 1890 et 1895; Huile sur toile, 47 x 56,5 cm. Paris, musée d’Orsay; Legs comte Isaac de Camondo, 1911. Hervé Lewandowski / RMN ...

Aix-en-Provence is a city close to my heart. I lived here for three years shortly after arriving in France in 2003. This is where I learned the French language. For the first couple of years I spoke ...

Anthony Peregrine was a reporter at the Lancashire Evening Post for a decade, before he moved from north-west England to southern France. For the last 37 years, he has freelanced, specialising first ...

Not everything was an artistic or audience success at the 75th Aix-en-Provence Festival in France. But everything was worth discussing. By Joshua Barone Joshua Barone attended a week of opera and ...

Anne Elder “fell in love with France somewhere between Madeline and Moulin Rouge.” After studying abroad in Paris, the life-long Francophile migrated south and found a home in Aix–en–Provence, France.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Marseille may be one of this year’s European capitals of culture but its smaller neighbour, Aix-en-Provence, will not ...