Tag: Provence
Unexpected Provence: Meet the New Aix
The Provençal college town of Aix-en-Provence, celebrated for Cézanne, bel canto and fountain-side cafés, puts the finishing touches on a massive urban renewal project. Corinne LaBalme sets out beyond the town's tawny-tinted 17th-18th century façades to discover 21st-century Aix.
Out-of-Seasonal Delights: Les Baux-de-Provence
Thanks to a ruined fortress, shop-filled alleys, an expansive view over the plain and an enchanting sound-and-light show in the Quarries of Lights, Les-Baux-de-Provence is an in-season crowd pleaser. Corinne LaBalme takes us off-season Oustau de Baumanière and La Cabro d’Or, sister Relais & Chateaux-member resorts with all the trimming.
France Revisited Culinary Travel Article Takes Top Honors in Awards Competition
The North American Travel Journalists Association has announced that Gary Lee Kraut, editor of France Revisited, won GOLD in the 2013 Annual NATJA Awards Competition for best article written for the internet in the Culinary Travel category. His winning article “Drome Provencale: Eat Like a Sixth Grader, Drink Like a Wine Enthusiast” was published on France Revisited. Kraut’s article “Biarritz: The Surfing Lesson” was a finalist in the Sports and Recreation category.
Black Diva and the Roman Theater of Orange
I don't often show pictures of myself with celebrities, artists, winegrowers, chefs, politicians or other living icons that I meet in the course of my work, but that’s the best way to introduce the beautiful local Diva that I met the other day while in Orange, in the Vaucluse area of Provence.
Drome Provencale: Eat Like a Sixth Grader, Drink Like a Wine Enthusiast, Part 1...
Part 1: In which the author has lunch at a middle school cafeteria in the Provencal town of Nyons, realizes that he can’t remember anything from sixth grade and goes to talk to the principal.
Drome Provencale: Medieval Towns, Castles, Olives, Lavender and Silk (Part 3 of 3)
Some impressions and practical information concerning the area covered in Parts 1 and 2 of this award-winning series about Drome Provencale, including Nyons, Taulignan and Grignan and featuring olives, lavender, silk and Madame de Sévigné.
Drome: An Unmistakable If Frigid Air of Provence in Winter
Heading south in the Drome region of the Rhone Valley, the landscapes, agriculture and architecture of Provence gradually assert themselves. Even on frigid winter days we recognize glimpses of Provence in Valence, Grignan, Nyons -- in town squares, lavender fields, truffle plantations, vineyards and olive orchards.
The Abbey of Senanque: Lavender, Old Stones and Poetry in Provence
In Provence, contributor Elizabeth Esris breaks through the picture-post card view of lavender and old stones and allows her imagination to take over while visiting the Abbey of Senanque in the region’s Vaucluse area.
Les Vaudois: Reflections on a Religious Massacre in Provence
Elizabeth Esris visits the ruins at Mérindol, a hilltop village in the southern portion of Luberon (Vaucluse, Provence), where followers of the Christian Vaudois sect were massacred over a period of five days in 1545 in a crusade ordered by the French King Francois I.