DISCOVER ARLES

1. DISCOVER ARLES

2. Sustainable Cities Arles & Environment

3. What is a Sustainable City Economic lights at the downtown in Arles : The new municipality develops economic light through the city to reduce costs of the oublic light. The team would like to reduce strongly this charge. Workers are changing bulbs in each spot. Building with new materials : New buildings at the center of Arles. This is an old city ( roman period ). Houses, flats are very old and sometime destroyed during the last war. Architectes, develop plans and process to change Old houses to new flats for families who want to live at the hearth of Arles.

4. What is a Sustainable City • Roman buildings like the arena, the theatre : • Five years ago, the municipality with the french agency of Monuments decided to change the front of Arenas and theatre to develop traffic with tourists. Now, More twenty thousand of people stay in Arles to visit this city. • Accomodations : • Its architecture respects the provenal tradition and fits perfectly in the landscape. it comprises villas and apartments, gardens and a swimming pool.

5. Examples of pedestrian friendly development, in Arles Les Alyscamps View of the old center Arena of Arles Culture of Arles, Corrida with bulls

6. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT During the 17th and 18th centuries many aristocratic town houses were built.  They form today the core of the charming historical center, where the large number of listed monuments bears witness to 2000 years of history.  In 1981 the Roman and Romanesque buildings of Arles were listed as UNESCOworld heritage monuments. Arles is a member of the French network of Ville d’art et d’Histoire, and also of the European network AVEC, (Alliance des villes européennes de la  culture - European cultural cities alliance).

7. Arles has remarkable museums   : • The Departmental Museum antique Arles, the Arles archeological museum, anchored since 1995 on the banks of the Rhone River, was built by Henri Ciriani beside the remains of the Roman circus.  It contains the archeological collections of the city and the surrounding region , spanning the period from neolithic times to the end of the  Roman and early Christian era. • The Museon Arlaten, the local ethnographical museum, is housed in the former Laval-Castellane town house dating from the 15th century.  The museum was created in 1896 by Frederic Mistral, a regionalist poet, and exhibits costumes, furniture, tools, objects connected with local religious traditions and superstitions, illustrating life in Provence during the 19th century. .

8. Around the Roman and Romanesque city of Arles, with its architectural treasures tnat fascinate visitors from all over the world, are three different types of landscapes : • The Camargue, situated between the two branches of the Rhone River, is one of the loveliest natural settings in Europe. Its fauna and flora are protected within the Camargue Regional Nature Park (Parc Naturel Régional de Camargue).The chain of hills called the Alpilles, land of vineyards and olive groves, inspired Frédéric Mistral.The Crau, an arid rocky plateau, is inhabited by an extraordinary number of birds.

9. Famous painters. The International Foundation of Arles.

10. The name of Arles is closely connected with that of Vincent Van Gogh. It is impossible to evoke the light of Arles without thinking of his paintings. It was this luminosity that attracted Van Gogh to the south of France. Vincent arrived in Arles one day in February1888 looking for the outside light but also seeking an interior illumination. Here he started a period of intense and impassioned work under the bright sunny sky of Provence.

11. Example : Firms, Economic sector Because of its geographical position, Arles has always been a cultural crossroads. The city has always embraced other Mediterranean cultures in all their creations : music, photography, literature. • Arles is home to • Harmonia Mundi editions • Actes Sud editions • Picquier, editions • The Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP), the only university-level national photography school in France. • Other cultural events include the traditional festivals of Arles: • the Easter bullfighting Feria, • the International Photography Festival created by Lucien Clergue, and including photo seminars and expositions, • the Voies Off Festival, • the nude photo festival, • the music festival « Les Suds à Arles », • the peplum epic film festival, • the liric forum, • These are some of the activities that make the city vibrate from January to December.

12. Arles has always been a city of traditions.  Gardians and Arlesian women participate in all the traditional seasonal festivals in and around Arles, the land of Frédéric Mistral.  With six other poets he created in 1856 the Félibrige, a literary movement designed to protect and promote the Provençal language. 

13. Coupo Santo E versanto, vuejo à plen bord Vuejo abord lis estrambord E l'enavans di fort !  I - Prouvençau, veici la coupo  Que nous vèn di Catalan  Aderèng beguen en troupo  Lou vin pur de noste plant.  V - Vuejo-nous la couneissènço  Dou Verai emai dou Bèu,  E lis àuti jouïssènço  Que se trufon dou toumbèu. VI - Vuejo-nous la Pouësio  Pèr canta tout ço que viéu,  Car es elo l'ambrousio  Que tremudo l'ome en Diéu.  II - D'un vièi pople fièr et libre  Sian bessai la finicioun;  E, se toumbon li Felibre,  Toumbara nosto Nacioun. VII - Pèr la glori dou terraire  Vautre enfin que sias counsènt,  Catalan, de liuen, o fraire,  Coumunien toutis ensèn !  III - D'uno raço que regreio  Sian bessai li proumié gréu;  Sian bessai de la Patrio  Li cepoun emai li priéu.  IV - Vuejo-nous lis esperanço  E li raive dou jouvent,  Dou passat la remembranço  E la fe dins l'an que vèn. 

14. Local Products – Regional crafts

15. The Saturday market is a ritual : in is not only one of the most beautiful markets in Provence, but also one of the largest (two kilometres long). There can be found anything your heart desires : fruits and vegetables, cheeses, flowers and spices, meat and fish, honey, all of the fresh produce and regional products that are such fun to taste, as well as clothing, shoes, fabric, crafts . . .

16. In the Camargue, more than anywhere else in France, the bull is king.Bulls have lived here in the swamps since Roman times, and are part of our daily life. They are the center of many of our cultural traditions, either the Camargue bulls, the heros of the bull games, or the "toros braves", descendants of Spanish bulls that fight in the arena. Ferias and corridas, Camargue bulls games Bulls running in the street

17. Arles is first and foremost a city of heritage monuments that can best be appreciated on foot or on bicycle. The three museums in the city offer regularly scheduled events, and expositions are organized all year round at a variety of sites : public halls and galleries, chapels, hotels, restaurants, etc. The Maison des Associations (municipal club house) offers a wide variety of activities (clubs, lessons and courses, etc.). Visits Arles, Visit the Camargue Excursions Beaches Cruise

18. Arles is a strategic spot within a circle of varied landscapes, at the heart of the Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur Region, in the department called Bouches du Rhône. It is the gateway to the Camargue, one of the nicest natural sites en Europe with an exceptionally rich plant and animal life. The Alpilles, dominated by the town of Baux-de-Provence, stretch 25 kilometers to the northeast. These limestone hills are surrounded by sunny pleasant Provençal villages spread out among vineyards and olive orchards : Fontvieille, Paradou, Maussane, Saint-Rémy… • On the border between Provence and Languedoc, your stay in Arles will bring you close to Tarascon and Beaucaire, the Saintes-Maries de la Mer, Aix en Provence the city of Cézanne and the Montagne Sainte-Victoire,

19. Cultural Preservation • The room of Van Gogh à Arles, 1889 • Sculpture of Cesar, found in the " Rhone", river which cross Arles. • Riding bikes in Arles and in the landscapes. Many tracks are developped to improve the practice of bikes in family.

20. “Arles is also a city of music. • In the Mediterranean tradition, here converge a variety of musical styles : traditional Provençal music (fife and drum) (group Le Condor), gypsy music (Chico, Les Gipsy Kings, Gitano Family), jazz, historical and classical music, opera, world music, contemporary music.

21. Among the major events to note are the Suds à Arles Festival, the opera forum, Jazz in Arles, the Harp Festival organized by the Association Opéra…For night-owls, the Cargo de Nuit, is a must in Arles. It opens its stage to all kinds of contemporary musical expression and for all types of listeners, young and old, and has built a solid reputation for offering quality concerts over the last ten years.The nightclub has received the Ministry-of-Culture label “Scène de Musiques Actuelles” , and has organized more than 1200 concerts since opening, including André Ceccarelli, Rita Mitsouko, Thomas Fersen, Didier Lockwood, The Gladiators, and recently Sinclair, Ten Years After or Cali….