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Introducing Arles
If Arles’ winding streets, stone squares and colourful houses baking in the sun seem familiar, it’s probably because they feature in Vincent Van Gogh’s prolific outpouring of art.
Long before Van Gogh captured on canvas this spot on the Grand Rhône River, just south of where the Petit Rhône diverges, the Romans had already been turned on to its charms. (Even before that, Arles was a Celtic settlement in the Bronze Age, before becoming a Greek colony known to the Romans as Arelate.)
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