If you try to understand the ”bourgeois” way of life in Provence, you should visit the surroundings of Aix-en-Provence, where huge bastides can be found. The bigger ones would be called castles anywhere else : they were both holiday and agricultural domains, and where occuped in the summer time by wealthy families from Aix and Marseille, when the heat became oppressive…
[picture: château de [...]
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Posted in break, history, villages, tagged aix, bastide, château, hotel, marseille, summer on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in break, history, villages, tagged bonnieux, film, novel, ridley scott, Treille on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few bastides have become famous and have contributed to the international popularity of Provence and its way of life.
Among them, the Château la Canorgue [picture below] in Bonnieux, main setting of the film A Good Year (2006) by Ridley Scott and the Bastide Neuve in La Treille, setting of the novel La Gloire de mon Père [...]
