Location: Aix-en-Provence
Top Things to do in Aix-en-Provence
10 Budget-friendly Things to do in Aix-en-Provence That You Shouldn't Miss
Aix, a graceful, lively city, is known for its thermal hot springs, art schools and universities. Wander the Cours, old town and Quartier Mazarin on foot, stopping at cafés, bookstores and markets. Kids whining? Have them count fountains… Aix reportedly has 1,000 of them.
Restaurants in Aix-en-Provence
1. Chapelle des Bourras ou Penitents Gris
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4.5 based on 31 reviews
2. Cathedrale St. Sauveur
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4.5 based on 978 reviews
Reviewed By EdwinP278 - Charlotte, United States
Wonderful historic cathedral - great visit to a beautiful old church. We loved our walk to the cathedral enjoying the market in Aix, viewing the sidewalk cafes, and then our visit to St. Sauveur. Recommend stopping at a sidewalk cafe and enjoying a nice Rose from Provence, sampling sausages and cheese in the market, and enjoying a strill along the pedestrian friendly streets and alleys. One of our favorite stops on our cruise.
3. Marche aux Fleurs
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4.5 based on 28 reviews
Reviewed By AlsaceAix - Aix-en-Provence, France
Nice flower market on Saturday City Hall square. Very colorful and fresh cut flowers. Plants are Alsace sold here.
4. Vieil Aix
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4.5 based on 1,792 reviews
Reviewed By 750dimitrisl - Sydney, Australia
Vieil Aix is a fascinating place. The "Old Aix" is a beautiful area. We walked around the streets observing, looking, enjoying everything there was on offer. There are wide and some narrow streets, shops, cafes, restaurants, patisseries, bread shops, and other types of shops, fountains, sculptures and more. And the architecture of the buildings is also worth the trip.
5. Les Lauves
6. Farmers' Markets
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4.5 based on 109 reviews
Reviewed By Razorfish - Little Rock, United States
My wife and I shopped at the Farmers Market in Aix-en-Provence on a Saturday morning during our two day stay in Aix. It is a great farmers market. It is one of my favorite markers in Europe. There is a good variety of fruits and vegetables as well as cheeses and breads. We bought some bread and cheese and I bought some duck confit. We went back to our Airbnb apartment and had a picnic on the rooftop terrace. It was one of the most memorable experiences of out trip to southern France.
7. Cours Mirabeau
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4.5 based on 2,925 reviews
Reviewed By Mmeurzec - Singapore, Singapore
This is a beautiful street lined with old Charming buildings in typical south of France style. Along its edges are restaurants and bistrots with terraces which are quintessential to the Provence.
8. Terrain des Peintres (Painters Park)
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4.5 based on 192 reviews
Reviewed By stellaCramer - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
it's worth the walk uphill , it completes the visit to Paul Cézanne's atelier. Copies of his paintings on the mountain St Victoire are placed in the park facing the real mountain. Access by bus too.
9. Site Memorial du Camp des Milles
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4.5 based on 498 reviews
Reviewed By SusanSnyc
We spent several hours at this memorial and educational exhibit housed in a former tile factory and used first by the French govenment and then by the Nazis and Vichy government as an interment camp from 1939 to 1942. We found the exhibit sobering and educational. We purchased the english audio guide which we found helpful, although it took a bit of experimenting to sync to the exhibit (especially to the introductory film.) It was worth the effort although there are few audio visual exhibits that do not have an english audio translation. There are also a few that are in english since the speakers are Americans who were interned there as children but who were able to escape or leave as part of a rescue effort. (Much of the text in the exhibit is presented both in french and in english.) We visited as a day trip from our summer hoilday stay in Aix-en-Provence and it was a quick trip by Uber or taxi. (It is closer than the train station to the city of Aix.) We visited on a Sunday when buses do not run, but we were told at the Aix tourist center that a bus is an easy way to get there and back. Leave plenty of time to visit all exhibits on the site including the permanent memorial to the over eleven thousand Jewish children who were deported from France to Aushwitz from 1940-1942, many from Les Milles. We wished that our adult and teen children had been with us on this trip to see this and recommend a visit to anyone visiting this part of France. A side note: We were two of a handful of visitors that day and it often felt like we were the only people in the building. We spoke to the helpful staff who said that they get visits from many school groups during the school year. Also, much of the building that houses exhibits is well air conditioned in the summer and heated in the winter, but the parts of the building that were used to house the prisoners have been left "as it was", so to experience at least some of the extreme conditions.
10. Office de Tourisme d’Aix-en-Provence
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4.5 based on 640 reviews
In an ideal location between the old town and the newer quarters, the Aix-en-Provence Tourist Office is the starting-point for a successful trip to our region. Since it opened in 1969, Aix-en-Provence Tourist Office has been providing visitors with advice and directions as well as information before and during their stay. In 1997, it was the first in France to be certified for the quality of its service and moved to new premises in November 2011 to offer its visitors (739,623 people in 2013) a larger area which now includes, in addition to the traditional assistance from our staff, digital assistance, a display area and a shop.
Reviewed By Dawei0007 - Shanghai, China
Sunday has a lovely antiques market along Cours Mirabeau. Take a stroll and soak up the very French atmosohere, all for free!
