Indian Chief Travel Guides

Alpilles and Garrigues: Van Gogh’s Provence

If you have ever dreamed of Provence, it probably looked like Vincent Van Gogh’s wheat fields and cypress trees, stony white hills and starry nights, tumbling clouds in brilliant blue skies. These images have made this part of Provence so familiar that it has become a kind of collective fantasy. Van Gogh spent his last and most prolific years painting the fields, farmhouses (mas in Provençal) and people of this corner of Provence. He produced so many images of the area that stretches from Avignon, west to Nîmes and south to Arles (the gateway to the Camargue) that visiting it, you might feel as if you’re walking around a living art gallery.