the country of Saint-Rémy

Overview
With the country of Aix and Salon, here is the second country of Provence inner north-western department of Bouches-du-Rhone, south of Avignon and the Durance river, east of the Rhone. This area is made of small mountains and valleys. The chain of Alpilles crosses from east to west. It is the hinterland traditional, local regionalist writers Alphonse Daudet and Frederic Mistral. The small town of Saint-Rémy Homel was the painter Vincent Van Gogh who painted his greatest masterpieces (sunflowers and cypress), villages were practicing agriculture generous.

Climat
Ithe summer is hot and sunny in winter. The north wind blows from time to time, cooler in summer, cold in winter, with mild inter-season (mistral).

remarkable history and heritage
Formerly, the city is the Glanum Greco-Roman remains some fine remains: arc de triomphe, mausoleum Julii, excavations. The city shows a set of stone houses built in the medieval era to today, the urban housing XVI and XVII th centuries is particularly noteworthy. On the outside, the monastery of Saint-Paul de Mausole called the visit is here, in this Romanesque building redesigned until the eighteenth century, Homel was the painter Van Gogh.