France Guide
Provence
Vieil Aix
To explore the network of jumbled little lanes and narrow roads that make up the heart of Aix, wander north from leafy cours Mirabeau to anywhere within the ring of cours and boulevards. The layout of Vieil Aix is not designed to assist your sense of direction, but it hardly matters when there's a fountained square to rest at every 50m and a continuous architectural backdrop of treats from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. On Saturdays, and to a lesser extent on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the centre is taken up with various markets.