AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE - 4K WALKING TOUR - TRAVEL 2023

Описание: Aix-en Provence was founded in 123 BC by the Roman consul Sextius Calvinus, who gave his name to its springs, following the destruction of the nearby Gallic oppidum at Entremont. In 102 BC its vicinity was the scene of the Battle of Aquae Sextiae, where the Romans under Gaius Marius defeated the Ambrones and Teutones, with mass suicides among the captured women, which passed into Roman legends of Germanic heroism.

In the 4th century AD it became the metropolis of Narbonensis Secunda. It was occupied by the Visigoths in 477. In the succeeding century, the town was repeatedly plundered by the Franks and Lombards, and was occupied by the Saracens in 731 and by Charles Martel in 737. Aix, which during the Middle Ages was the capital of Provence, did not reach its zenith until after the 12th century, when, under the houses of Barcelona/Aragon and Anjou, it became an artistic centre and seat of learning.

Aix passed to the crown of France with the rest of Provence in 1487, and in 1501 Louis XII established there the parliament of Provence, which existed until 1789. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the town was the seat of the Intendance of Provence. Current archeological excavations in the Ville des Tours, a medieval suburb of Aix, have unearthed the remains of a Roman amphitheatre. A deposit of fossil bones from the Upper Continental Miocene gave rise to a Christian dragon legend.

Video Timeline Links:
00:00 Intro
04:02 Fontaine de la Rotonde
04:20 Cours Mirabeau
11:15 Fontaine Du Roi René
11:30 Cours Mirabeau
12:30 Rue Frederic Mistral
13:20 Rue Mazarine
15:45 Hôtel de Caumont
16:05 Rue Joseph Cabassol
16:50 Cours Mirabeau
17:30 Rue Nazareth
19:10 Rue Espariat
19:35 Place d'Albertas
19:45 Rue Aude
21:15 Rue Maréchal Foch
22:00 Place Richelme
24:20 Place de l'Hôtel de Ville
24:40 Tour de l'Horloge
25:15 Hôtel de Ville d'Aix-en-Provence
26:55 Rue Gaston de Saporta
29:30 Aix Cathedral
30:40 Rue Gaston de Saporta
33:55 Place des Cardeurs
37:20 Rue des Muletiers
38:40 Rue des Cordeliers
39:30 Rue Lieutaud
40:40 Place des Tanneurs
41:35 Rue de la Couronne
43:25 Place des Augustins

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