Arles Travel Forum

Hi. My name is Ale and I am the personal assistant to a lady who will be traveling to Arles. Her main focus is to visit local places where Van Gogh was known to frequent.

Any and all information would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much.

Ale

Hi

This website might help you:

http://www.tourisme.ville-arles.fr/us/a4/a4a.htm

Don't forget to visit the Roman Amphitheatre too - even tho it has nothing to do with Van Gogh.

The Tourist Information Office, whose web site is listed in the previous reply, has a map listing 10 markers placed around town at locations where he painted well know works. I didn't see the map mentioned on the web site, but I picked one up at the office in Arles when I visited in March (it's in a pamphlet called Walking Tours and includes several other tours in addition to Van Gogh). The markers show a picture of the painting and some background information about when it was painted. The (relatively) nearby town of St. Rémy-de-Provence has a similar set of markers around town.

Hi. Van Gogh stayed also a while in Barbizon. That's just under Paris near Fontainebleau.
Barbizon is very pittoresque, but a little touristic.

Happy travels
Peter