Aix-en-Provence: Art, Architecture and Public Places
Aix-en-Provence · France
- Audio guide
- 4 languages
- Offline
Follow Aix-en-Provence through monasteries, churches, fountains, squares, memorials, and museums, with each stop revealing a different part of the city’s visual character. Pause at the fountains to notice how water animates public space, then linger in the market and square where everyday life meets elegant architecture. The museums and artists’ studios bring the city’s creative history into focus, while the churches and civic landmarks add scale, ceremony, and texture. This walk is worth taking for the way art and architecture unfold together in places where the city is still lived and enjoyed.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.
Musée Granet
A former monastery transformed by gifts into Aix’s museum of antiquities, Cézanne, and modern art.
Église Saint-Jean-de-Malte
A Gothic church shaped by the Knights of Malta, revolution, and paintings rescued from Aix’s lost churches.
Fontaine des Quatre-Dauphins
An eighteenth-century fountain whose name still tells you where to look.
Hôtel de Caumont - Centre d'Art
An aristocratic Aix residence that became a music conservatory, then a carefully restored art centre.
Fontaine Moussue
A warm spring turned into a living limestone fountain on the Cours Mirabeau.
Fontaine du Roi René
A stone statue and fountain joined in one memorial to the figure named Roi René.
Stop 7
Stop 8
Stop 9
- 8 more stops in the app
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
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How a walk works
8 more stops in the app
This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
A guide who talks
Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.