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Inaugurated. July 1948. ( 1948-07) Founder. Lily Pastré. Website. Festival d'Aix-en-Provence official website. The Festival d'Aix-en-Provence is an annual international music festival which takes place each summer in Aix-en-Provence, principally in July. Devoted mainly to opera, it also includes concerts of orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo ...
Quartier Mazarin. The quartier Mazarin is a district in the centre of Aix-en-Provence, directly to the south of the cours Mirabeau, the principal boulevard in Aix. On the initiative of Archbishop Michel Mazarin, brother of the Cardinal Jules Mazarin and Archbishop of Aix from 1645-8 and later himself a cardinal, city plans were devised in 1646 ...
The local Aix dialect, rarely used and spoken by a rapidly decreasing number of people, is part of the provencal dialect of the Occitan language. The provencal for "Aix-en-Provence" is "Ais de Prouvènço" [ˈaj de pʀuˈvɛ̃sɔ]. Most of the older streets in Aix have names in both Provençal and French.
Owner. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley is an oil painting on canvas completed by the French artist Paul Cézanne between 1882 and 1885. It depicts Montagne Sainte-Victoire and the valley of the Arc River, with Cézanne's hometown of Aix-en-Provence in the background.
An Image of Grand Théâtre de Provence. The Grand Théâtre de Provence ( GTP) is a venue located in the new Aix-en-Provence in district "Sextius Mirabeau". A symbol of the Aix region was used for the design of the volumes of this room: the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, recalled in particular by the stones of different colours on the outside.
Théâtre de l'Archevêché. Coordinates: 43°31′54″N 5°26′53″E. The Théâtre de l'Archevêché is a theatre in Aix-en-Provence in southern France and the home of the annual summer Aix-en-Provence Festival of opera.
150–350 m (490–1,150 ft) (avg. 193 m or 633 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Le Tholonet ( French pronunciation: [lə tɔlɔnɛ]; Lou Toulounet and Lo Tolonet in Provençal) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France.
Aix-en-Provence Argonautes; Established: 1986: Based in: Aix-en-Provence, France: Home stadium: Complexe sportif du Val de l'Arc: Head coach: Jake Hale: General manager: Manu Maguet: Team president: Thierry Jamet: League: Ligue Élite de Football Américain: Division: Division 1: League titles