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Aix-en-Provence Self Guided Tour of the City of Fountains
Explore Aix-en-Provence on a self-guided audio walk through Cézanne and Zola, royal intrigue, Resistance secrets, hidden fountains, and sweet traditions.
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( 28 reviews )
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Highlights
Meet Cézanne and Zola as schoolboys at Collège Mignet.
Hear about Resistance rescue efforts, secret refuges and the Noat family’s wartime role.
Follow Aix’s water stories from the Rotonde to the moss-covered thermal fountain.
Connect King René, a vanished royal burial site and the cathedral’s Burning Bush painting.
Encounter calissons and madeleines, with optional independent purchases along the route.
Preview Stop
00:00 / 01:04
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Tour is valid for 1 year and can be used multiple times
Language Options
English | French | German | Spanish | Italian | Dutch | Polish | Russian | Portuguese
Duration
1 hour and 30 minutes
Itinerario
Fontaine de la Rotonde
Look up at three marble women above a fountain built before Aix secured its reliable water supply.
United Protestant Church of Aix
Pause at a former synagogue to hear about a pastor facing an impossible wartime choice.
Hôtel de Caumont
Look beyond the mansion façade for a concierge’s wartime secret and a bride’s abruptly altered future.
Collège Mignet
Meet two schoolboys whose friendship began here, with bullies, ambition and a much-debated basket of apples.
Fontaine des Quatre Dauphins
Study four stone dolphins for clues to the powerful family behind Aix’s carefully planned mansion district.
Folco de Baroncelli Birthplace Plaque
Find the birthplace of a marquis whose unusual calling led him toward bulls and white horses.
Église Saint-Jean-de-Malte
Look up at the Hospitallers’ church, where missing bells connect a revolutionary war with a modern search.
Musée Granet
Trace Cézanne’s early drawing lessons and a painted mother’s extraordinary request to the ruler of the gods.
Fontaine du Roi René
Examine the grapes in King René’s hand and hear the wedding legend behind an Aix sweet.
Passage Agard
Enter a narrow shopping passage where a stubborn neighbour and a royal burial complicate the ground beneath.
Hôtel Maurel de Pontevès
Study two straining stone giants for clues to a cloth merchant’s pursuit of noble status.
Fontaine Moussue
Search the moss-covered thermal fountain for traces of the sculpted figures hidden beneath its green coat.
Pascalis Plaque
Read a Provençal plaque marking the day revolutionary violence reached a lawyer’s front door.
Maison Béchard
Examine Aix’s three-layered calisson at a family pastry shop with a workshop behind the window.
Place d’Albertas
Survey a judge’s carefully staged square and ask what stood in the way of his view.
Fontaine des Bagniers
Study Cézanne’s bronze profile above a fountain whose displaced waters connect two old-town streets.
Halle aux Grains
Look for a river’s protruding foot above the grain hall, then consider the hunger behind its grandeur.
Tour de l’Horloge
Find the wooden season beneath the clock and hear why changing it requires someone with keys.
Madeleines de Christophe
Look at shell-shaped madeleines and hear the kitchen-disaster legend behind the little cake’s name.
Hôtel de Châteaurenard
Look beyond a diamond-studded doorway for the painted staircase that caught Louis XIV’s attention.
Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur
Read the cathedral’s changing stonework, then follow King René’s connection to a painting of a burning bush.
Musée des Tapisseries
Search an archbishop’s carved doorway for clues linking a French marshal with a Scandinavian throne.
Noat Family Home
Read five names beside a family doorway where Resistance messages and a secret radio once converged.
Palais de Justice
Face the courthouse columns and piece together the vanished palace and neighbourhood beneath this civic monument.
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Mejores reseñas
Graciela
Discovering Places at a Pleasant Pace.
8 de junio de 2026
I liked being able to do the tour at my own pace and listen to each commentary again.
No need to rush after a guide who leads you around by the nose. You can stop and take photos calmly.
Daniel
Good value for money. Handy to be able to do whenever you want
15 de mayo de 2026
The tour is a good place to start and introduction to Aix en Provence I suppose. I felt like it was a bit brief, both in stops and explanations
Bobs
Well done with a couple caveats
28 de abril de 2026
An informative and reasonably comprehensive introduction to the old town in Aix. We tried following the tour in reverse given that the last stop was close to our accommodation. We did this with the self guided Dijon tour and it worked flawlessly, but it didn't work so well here. There are several stops that are inside a church and therefore do not appear on the map. The only way of knowing this is by following in the recommended sequential order. With respect to the food stops, one was closed on the Monday we took the tour and the other had changed owners so was called something different and was difficult to find. Nonetheless the tour is well done and worthwhile.
Full Description
Follow Aix-en-Provence’s fountains, mansion doors and wartime plaques on a self-guided audio walk through the old town. Hear stories of Cézanne and Zola, royal ambition, Resistance courage and the city’s sweet-making traditions.
Cover roughly 3 km across 24 stops in about three hours, with offline listening after download and freedom to pause along the way. Optional attraction tickets and food purchases cost extra.
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