Cours Mirabeau and Provençal Fountains
Aix-en-Provence · France
- Audio guide
- 4 languages
- Offline
Follow a sequence of fountains, squares, and memorials that reveals how water and public space shape the heart of Aix-en-Provence. Along the way, you will compare named fountains such as Eau Chaude, the Neuf Canons, and the Rotonde, while pausing in places connected to the city’s historic urban fabric. The walk is worthwhile for its changing views of sculpture, water, and open civic spaces. Take your time to notice how each stop gives the fountain tradition a different setting.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 8. The rest are in the app.
Fontaine Moussue
A warm spring turned into a living limestone fountain on the Cours Mirabeau.
Place des Quatre-Dauphins
A planned seventeenth-century square where politics, urban design, and a rather busy fountain meet.
Fontaine du Roi René
A stone statue and fountain joined in one memorial to the figure named Roi René.
Fontaine des Prêcheurs
A working Aix fountain with a documented beginning in seventeen fifty-eight, but no recorded maker.
Place d'Albertas
A family’s eighteenth-century redesign turned private property into Aix’s most composed little square.
Fontaine des Neuf-Canons
A 1691 fountain that began as a watering place for animals and became a protected monument.
Stop 7
Stop 8
- 2 more stops in the app
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in Aix-en-Provence
6 walks
How a walk works
2 more stops in the app
This page shows the first 6 of 8 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.