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A grand mansion concealed a Resistance refuge. A school gate recalls Cézanne and Zola before fame. On this self-guided walking tour of Aix-en-Provence, the Tourific app brings the stories behind the façades to life.
Follow 24 stops from the Rotonde to the Palais de Justice. Find out who changes the seasons beneath the town hall clock, why a shopping passage crosses a royal burial site, and what a moss-covered fountain hides. Along the way, hear the royal wedding legend behind Aix's calissons.
This Aix-en-Provence audio tour covers roughly 3 km in about three hours. Start when it suits you, pause and resume, and listen offline after downloading. Stories can be enjoyed from outside; museum admission and tastings cost extra.
For independent travelers who enjoy art, history and their own schedule. Over 30,000 travelers have used our self-guided tours. The tour comes with a full refund guarantee.
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Itinerary
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1Fontaine de La Rotonde
Look up at three marble women above a fountain built before Aix secured its reliable water supply.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
2
Pause at a former synagogue to hear about a pastor facing an impossible wartime choice.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
(Pass by)
Look beyond the mansion façade for a concierge’s wartime secret and a bride’s abruptly altered future.
Admission ticket free -
3
Meet two schoolboys whose friendship began here, with bullies, ambition and a much-debated basket of apples.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
4Fontaine des Quatre-Dauphins
Study four stone dolphins for clues to the powerful family behind Aix’s carefully planned mansion district.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
5
Find the birthplace of a marquis whose unusual calling led him toward bulls and white horses.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6Eglise Saint-Jean-de-Malte
Look up at the Hospitallers’ church, where missing bells connect a revolutionary war with a modern search.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
Musee Granet (Pass by)
Trace Cézanne’s early drawing lessons and a painted mother’s extraordinary request to the ruler of the gods.
Admission ticket free -
7Fontaine du Roi Rene
Examine the grapes in King René’s hand and hear the wedding legend behind an Aix sweet.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
8Passage Agard
Enter a narrow shopping passage where a stubborn neighbour and a royal burial complicate the ground beneath.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
9
Study two straining stone giants for clues to a cloth merchant’s pursuit of noble status.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
10
Search the moss-covered thermal fountain for traces of the sculpted figures hidden beneath its green coat.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
11
Examine Aix’s three-layered calisson at a family pastry shop with a workshop behind the window.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
12Place d'Albertas
Survey a judge’s carefully staged square and ask what stood in the way of his view.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
13
Study Cézanne’s bronze profile above a fountain whose displaced waters connect two old-town streets.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
(Pass by)
Look for a river’s protruding foot above the grain hall, then consider the hunger behind its grandeur.
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(Pass by)
Find the wooden season beneath the clock and hear why changing it requires someone with keys.
Admission ticket free -
14
Look at shell-shaped madeleines and hear the kitchen-disaster legend behind the little cake’s name.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
Hotel de Chateaurenard (Pass by)
Look beyond a diamond-studded doorway for the painted staircase that caught Louis XIV’s attention.
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15Cathedrale St. Sauveur
Read the cathedral’s changing stonework, then follow King René’s connection to a painting of a burning bush.
15 minutes • Admission ticket free -
(Pass by)
Search an archbishop’s carved doorway for clues linking a French marshal with a Scandinavian throne.
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(Pass by)
Face the courthouse columns and piece together the vanished palace and neighbourhood beneath this civic monument.
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(Pass by)
Read five names beside a family doorway where Resistance messages and a secret radio once converged.
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(Pass by)
Read a Provençal plaque marking the day revolutionary violence reached a lawyer’s front door.
Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Cancellation Policy
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- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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