Cours Mirabeau is the center...
by SeaBreezeUSA
Cours Mirabeau is the center of the center, and the heart of Aix. The Cours Mirabeau is a beautiful tree-lined avenue, with one side lined with wonderful terrace cafés and bookshops. If you sit at only one French sidewalk café outside of Paris, it should be here, where the air is warm, the light sublime and the sidewalk alive. Large plane trees overhang the length of the avenue, giving day-long shade on hot summer days. Some of the more famous cafés are: Le Grillon [pictured here], Les Deux Garçons, La Belle Epoque and Le Café du Cours. For breakfast in Aix, one can buy spinach quiches and mushroom quiches at a shop low on the Cours Mirabeau, across from the cafés, and have them with our 'grandes crèmes' at Les Deux Garcons.
"Rene!" "You stupid Woman!"
by rickyvilla81
This is Roi Rene, who was King of Provence back in the middle ages. He is not to be confused with the cafe owner from Allo Allo, although you will from time to time see local waitresses trying to seduce him. This statue can be found at the end of the Cours Mirabeau.
Art for all, wall of art
by rickyvilla81 about Michel
So you want to paint and draw in Provence, eh? Aix is great for that. There are lots of art students here from all over, so therefore ther are lots of art shops. My particular favourite though is Michel, on the Cours Mirabeau. Here you can get everything for every type of art, as well as cards, diaries, postcards, calendars, that type of thing.
See here the Wall of Art at my appartmnent, a collaborative effort which brought colour to our kitchen...
Good Italian By Owners Of Pizza Stand
by ForestqueenNYC about CAPRI LA SUITE
Very pretty non Provencal decor. Presentation was very nouvelle. Manager and daughter-in-law, Melanie, was extremely friendly. Food was very good. There was an adorable toy Yorkie assigned to clean up all the crumbs on the floor. He was very efficient.
Tell Melanie that you read about her on VT. Ordered lasagna. It was very good. The tiramisu was excellent.
People Watching Bars
by ForestqueenNYC
Of course every bar or cafe in the historic, center is good for people watching and it goes without saying that all the bars, restos, and cafes on the Cours Mirabeau are. But it was while sitting at Bar de l'Horologie (and I am not even sure it was called that then) at Place de Verdun watching the people shop for their fruits and vegetables in 1994 that I decided to move from Florence to Aix.
The other bar that I liked was right next door. Again I do not know if it was called by the same name that it is today.
In the picture of the market at Place de Verdun, there are no people there at the time the photo was taken because there had been a bomb scare.
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Cathedral (Aix-en-Provence, France)
Source: www.auberge-des-michels.com
There's part of a car but the place is still great
Evening Scene
