A walk in the Heart of the Hills

Discover Mont Sainte-Victoire, Cézanne’s favourite landscape motif, Sainte-Baume, the mountain cherished by the people of Provence, and the small Massif de l’Etoile, which Marcel Pagnol knew as a child—a series of small and unobtrusive sun-soaked calcareous massifs. From Aix-en-Provence, with its squares and Italianate fountains, to the gates of Marseilles … all these sites are redolent with the scent of thyme in the garrigue brushwood.