{"id":14468,"date":"2019-08-23T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dovevado.net\/provenza-4-itinerari-da-non-perdere\/"},"modified":"2023-09-03T18:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:46:02","slug":"provence-4-itineraries-not-to-be-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dovevado.net\/en\/provence-4-itineraries-not-to-be-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"Provence what to see, 4 itineraries not to be missed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Provence what to see<\/strong> was the question I asked myself when I made my first trip to Provence<\/strong> in 2003. Since then, this destination rich in history, art and romance has been the focus of my summer holidays for several years. One of the French regions most similar to my Tuscany and with a similar charm.<\/p>\n\n

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Provence what to see in the South of France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

What to see in Provence<\/h2>\n\n

Provence<\/strong> is a place that has fascinated us so much that we have been there many times and this account of mine is based on a series of 6 trips made over 10 years that have allowed me to see much, but still not everything about the region.The last trip was this summer where Ornella and I took those few of our family who had not yet been there to see the lavender.<\/p>\n\n

What to see in Provence on a road tour<\/h3>\n\n

The first time I decided to visit Provence and the South of France was back in 2002. To impress Ornella, who was to become my wife years later, I was looking for a place where we could make our first elopement in secret. A little ‘trip out of town’ that would give us excitement and why not, amaze her just enough.I searched a lot on the net for a similar place I could visit in a weekend, but nothing that convinced me much in Italy with the time constraints I had, until I found a photo of the Lavender bloom<\/a> in Valensole and decided that was the place.I looked it up and immediately associated it with our favourite painter: Van Gogh. Those were the places where he had expressed his best painting in my opinion and where he died in the village of Saint Remy de Provence.<\/p>\n\n

Where is Provence<\/h2>\n\n

Provence, more precisely Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d’Azur<\/span> or PACA, is the region in the south of France on the border with Italy. Having crossed the border at Ventimiglia, we are officially in that region.It runs from the Alps to the Rhone that divides it from Occitania. In the north, it borders the Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes region.<\/p>\n\n

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Provence map – Map Provence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Provence is located on the border with Italy, specifically with Liguria and Piedmont, so it is easy to reach, especially from the coastal side with the motorway leading from Genoa to France.Although people often think of Provence as the Arles region, as soon as we cross the border we are already in the region.<\/p>\n\n

Cities of Provence<\/h3>\n\n

The most important cities in Provence are:<\/p>\n\n