Walking routes, day plans, and curated itineraries for exploring Avignon
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Around 45-50 minutes from Avignon by bus, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is the chic face of the Alpilles - a beautifully renovated old town, a Roman site at its doorstep, and the monastery where Van Gogh painted The Starry Night. It is touristy and it is pricey, but it is also impossible not to like. Here is a local's honest guide.
Twenty minutes by train from Avignon sits a city with the best-preserved Roman temple on earth and an amphitheatre that still fills with crowds. But Nîmes is no museum piece - it is a living, working city with gardens, markets and a bull culture that defines its calendar. A local's honest guide.
Ask this Avignon local for one day trip and the answer is always Arles. A short train ride delivers you into one of the most charming towns in Provence - Roman arenas, Van Gogh's streets, an unbeatable market, and the famous light that has drawn painters and photographers for centuries. Here's how to do it properly.
Provence was the first Roman province outside Italy, and the monuments they left behind are among the finest anywhere - some of them a short train ride from Avignon. A local's honest guide to the Roman theatres, arenas, temples and aqueducts worth your time, which need a car, and which one quietly beats them all.
One day in Avignon? You can see the very best of it - if you walk it in the right order. Here's exactly how a local would spend the perfect day, hour by hour, on a single smart loop with no backtracking.
No cigales, no cold pastis in the shade of a plane tree - but a sunlit, tourist-free Avignon that locals quietly treasure. A resident's honest guide to the city in its quietest, most authentic season.
Why you should stop hotel-hopping and use Avignon as your home base for all of Provence. A local's honest guide to the best day trips, from Roman wonders and mountain villages to wine country and the beach.
