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solopes Says: The village is small, so it's easy to visit, walking along the narrow and steep streets, and watching the integration of the houses with the rocks.
solopes Says: Standing in the top of the hill, this ruined structure includes several buildings from different epochs. There is a audio guided visit in six languages, but we skipped it.
Chapels Near South End of the Cliff
hquittner Says: On another part of the hill there stands the walls of a Chapel of St. Blaise and next to it another of St. Claude, both n a flat place near the southern edge of the large rocky promontory.
hquittner Says: Part of the Hotel de Manville still stands and is used as the Hotel de Ville and is also used for other activities. Several rooms have been made into a modern art museum. Immediately beyond the hotel, there are the remains of a Protestant oratory. It consists of the outer...
hquittner Says: Les Baux sits on the west edge of the Alpilles, 3 km south of Glanum. Almost all of the Alpilles chain stretches east from here for 11 miles (an area southwest of the Luberon). The walls of the Alpilles are almost white and are not very tall. This area was used by van Gogh...
hquittner Says: The simple facade of the Maison des Porcelets is intact near the church, as is an adjacent small domed tower. Along the main street and nearby are many shops of varying quality.
Look In the White Penitents' Chapel
hquittner Says: The chapel is close to the edge of the cliff on the east. It is a plain structure with a a small belfry and minimal carved decoration. Inside the chapel has bee covered with recent frescos of surrounding the Birth of Jesus by Yves Breyer.
hquittner Says: The inside of St. Vincent's is dark and aside from a few adornments nothing remains. In the depth along one wall is a tomb of a knight from the 15C. In the back wall is an ancient small heraldic shield and nearby is a small statue of St. Francis with raised arms. A recent...
hquittner Says: The facade of St. Vincent is a plain Romanesque building with unadorned arcading. It sits in a small square. The unside is dimly lit. Much of the vertical deeper wall is modifying of the surface of the cliff. Adjacent to the north of the church is a campanile whose belfry is...
Looking over the villages from vilalge of Baux
Toshioohsako Says: It is a fantastic view you can have over the small villages surround the Fort village of Baux town which stand of the top of the rocky hill.
Toshioohsako Says: It is a pleasant and interesting experience to walk up through the narrow pavements of the Baux village. You will be surrounded by interesting houses, streets, monuments and artisan shops. Stop and have a coffee in onw of the terrace coffee shops - you can see a magnificent...
grandmaR Says: «No one passes through Les Baux without a sense of true nostalgia, for here, more than anywhere else, the labours of time show what becomes of the most ambitious undertakings: ruined walls and breaches onto the void. The stones of man’s proud constructions devoured by the...
lotharlerch Says: The ruins are fascinating both because of their very specific setting on the reef of the Alpilles and because of the interesting traces of millenia of history of this place you can find. It is rather nice and free of charge to wander around in the village with its few...
hquittner Says: We were not able to gettable for lunch or a room at the Oustau de Baumaniere but they were able to give us a table for lunch (but not a room for the night) at their other venue, La Cabro d'Or. Since we could not compare the two restaurants, all we can say is that it was the...
Les Lavandes: Nice Place - Worth the Money
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brenns Says: I was in St Remy de Provence in May. Hoping that I might get some help in getting to Les Baux, I went to the local tourist office. Unfortunately, they told me that buses only run to Les Baux in July and that the only way for me to get there is by taxi. Round trip to Les Baux...
royalempress Says: You can't drive in town so park at the parking lot at the bottom of the hill.
solopes Says: The main local business seems to be... herbs. Aromatic herbs and tea are sold everywhere, thus, the prices should be very convenient. However, shopping is not my speciality...
solopes Says: Agriculture in such a rocky soil must be hard, but the way they carefully cultivate around the rocks makes us believe that most of the sold herbs are local production. Maybe a closed economy, in a secluded village.
grandmaR Says: I was interested in Les Baux because bauxite, the ore from which aluminum was extracted was discovered here in 1822 by the geologist Pierre Berthier (who named it for the city). Charles Martin Hall invented a process to extract aluminum from bauxite at Oberlin in Ohio in...
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Giant catapults, as shown here, were also used in assaults against walls and fortifications.
Q: Hi all, Does anyone know where Les Baux de Provence is? And what is there to see? Maranda
A: It's a lovely little town near St. Remy. I've got some pictures of it on my Aix Provence page, and I really love that part of France. There isn't a lot to see right in...
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Welcome to Les Baux de Provence
Les Baux was the site of a citadel of powerful mideval feudal lords, who commanded over the valley below. The citadel was destroyed in 1632 by the French king, as it had become a Protestant enclave....
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I visited Les Baux by accident. I was dining in Salon de Provence, and, talking with the restaurant's maid she asked me if I had seen Les Baux. I said no, and she advised me to go back a few...
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Les Baux-de-Provence is 29 km south of Avignon. Les Baux-de-Provence rests on a high spur of a rock mountain with a countryside of grapes and olives trees surrounding it. A 13th century castle and...
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In 1964, I wrote to my mom: Today we visited Avignon, Arles, Les Baux, and Aix en Provance. We really had a rather good day altho the tours of the Pope's Palace etc. were exclusively in French and so...
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The Ruined Castle and Remains of Les Baux
The stony surrounding ground around the ruins of les Baux is where bauxite was first found but everyone comes to look at the remains of this once fortress and to see the views down into the valley
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