Alpilles
The Alpilles (in Occitan Of Provence: LEIS Aupilhas according to the traditional standard or lily Aupiho according to the standard Mistralienne) is a mountainous solid mass located at the North-West of the French department of the Rhone delta.
Geography
Alpilles extend according to a East-West axis on approximately 25 km, since the valley of the the Rhone to the valley of the Durance. It dominates in north the market-gardening plain of Saint-Rémy-of-Provence and in the south the plain of the Crau. The culminating point is the Tower of Opies with 498 Mr.
There are very few inhabitants inside this solid mass of Garrigue S. Cependant, some villages are made famous for Roman ruins and festivals of summer:
- site of the “Ancient ” close to Saint-Rémy-of-Provence on the northern slope.
- Beam-of-Provence in the south.
- a museum and an old church with Eygalières in the North-East
The museum of Alphonse Daudet is installed in the famous mill on an eminence related to the solid mass, on the road which leads to Arles.
Gallery photographs
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