The Alpilles and Les Baux-de-Provence in 4 days

A village on a rocky spur, with few permanent residents in its upper town, Renaissance mansions, rock-cut houses and steep lanes up to the castle.

The ruined fortress of the lords of Les Baux, whose line died out in 1426; after a revolt in 1631, Richelieu had it dismantled.

Former limestone quarries, closed in 1935, where moving images are projected across walls, pillars and floor to music; Cocteau filmed here in 1959.

An olive village south of Les Baux that once had seven oil mills; two still work, including the Moulin Jean-Marie Cornille, a cooperative since 1924.

A Celto-Ligurian sanctuary by a sacred spring that became a Gallo-Roman town, sacked in the 3rd century, with baths, forum, temples and a sacred well.

The former monastery and asylum where Van Gogh lived from May 1889 to May 1890, with a Romanesque cloister and a reconstruction of his room.

An old centre ringed by plane-tree boulevards, with fountains, mansions, the presumed birthplace of Nostradamus and a Van Gogh centre in the Musée Estrine.

A village wrapped around a rock topped by its ruined castle, with lanes up to the 16th-century White Penitents' chapel and its local museum.