Welcome to Arles, blogmates!
UNESCO approved since 1981, largely due to its Roman history in the form of a theatre, amphitheatre, and baths.
It's a fairly compact city on the banks of the Rhone, and for a couple of years was home to tortured ginger artist Vincent Van Gogh. (In fact, it was here that he lopped off his lughole....)
We looked in on the Hotel de Dieu, where he'd stayed briefly after a spell in a sanatorium (with or without a working pair of ears, it wasn't clear....)
Hasn't changed much since Vince's day......
Next on our list was a visit to the 12th century cloisters of St. Triomphe (no, I've no idea who that is either. I really do think that they just make these foreign saints up. ..)
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