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Magnificent fountain with the Cours Mirabeau. Resting point and starting point for very diverse circuits and nearby countryside. The only downside: Aix en Provence is absolutely not equipped for cyclists, but fortunately you can get out of it quite quickly (Gametta and its roundabout below deserve to be very careful)

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Cross this bridge and you leave the city traffic of Aix and head straight for a quiet little stretch that climbs pleasantly up the mountain through a pine forest.

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Red soil can be found not only in Roussillon, but also around the Montagne Sainte-Victoire.

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The former windmill in Le Tholonet was once rented by the painter Cézanne as a studio and storage space. The building is located directly on the "Route Cézanne," making it a perfect place to combine culture with road cycling.

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Bronze statue of the famous Aix-en-Provence painter, Paul Cezanne, created by Dutch sculptor Gabriel Sterk. Standing 2.25 meters tall, Cezanne is depicted ready to paint "from life," with his hat, backpack, and walking stick. Sterk was inspired by a photograph when creating his work. The sculptor, renowned for his bronzes, particularly those of artists such as Rembrandt and Van Gogh, settled in Aix-en-Provence in 2000. Surprised by the lack of a statue paying tribute to the local boy, he decided to create one. It was subsequently donated to the city by the Aix-en-Oeuvre association and installed in 2006 on the centenary of Cezanne's death. The statue faces the Rotunda and the Cours Mirabeau, but above all the Sainte-Victoire, the painter's favorite subject.

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Originally, the church was in the shape of a Latin cross and consisted only of the nave, transept, bell tower, and watchtowers to the north and south of the choir, as well as the Hélion de Villeneuve chapel (14th century) with its beautiful ribbed vault featuring liernes and tiercerons. Outside, the twenty or so stepped buttresses topped with pinnacles are hidden on Rue Cardinale by the unimpressive buildings attached to the monument in the 17th century. The 67-meter-high bell tower was completed in 1376. The priory, now the Granet Museum, served both as the residence of the knights and as a hospice where pilgrims were welcomed and the sick cared for. The church and the priory were built in the fields, outside the city walls. They were set into the central vista of the Mazarin Quarter in the 17th century, built by Michel de Mazarin, brother of Louis XIV's minister. The building was remodeled during the 17th century by Prior Jean-Claude Viany, who had six chapels built within the buttresses and, for symmetry, added the south turret similar to the one on the north side that provides access to the bell tower. In 2018, after 225 years, the church received three new bells for its carillon, out of the four that comprise it. The three previous bells had been cast in 1793 during Napoleon's Italian campaign.

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In its current form, the Church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte is the first entirely Gothic church in Provence. It was built between 1270 and 1280 by the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John of Jerusalem, replacing an older building whose dedication is known to have been celebrated by Cardinal Pierre de Colmieu on May 3, 1251. The lightness and elegance of the Gothic rib vaults, which support the pillars, give the nave a dynamic and rhythmic quality that earned it the nickname "Sainte-Chapelle of the South." The side windows are less open than those in churches in the Île-de-France region, but the apse window is exceptionally large for Provence. The overall effect was restored during the recent restoration work carried out in 1996, by highlighting the two-tone effect of the ochre wall surfaces and the white architectural elements, restoring to the space its luminosity, simplicity, elegance, and dynamism. The current building was constructed as the mausoleum of the Counts of Provence: – the tomb of Raymond Berenger V and his wife Beatrice of Savoy in the north transept – the tombs of Beatrice of Provence and her husband Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, which were destroyed during the French Revolution. This church can be considered a kind of ‘Provençal Saint-Denis’.

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The Rotonde, located on Place du Général de Gaulle, is where the past and future of Aix's urban development unfold. The square (100m in diameter) was created between 1840 and 1850. In 1860, the Rotonde fountain was built based on plans by the engineers Tournadre and Sylvestre. Twelve meters high, the fountain is constructed of cold stone and consists of two basins. Lions, dolphins, swans, and children, works by Truphème, adorn it. The three statues that surmount it represent Justice (toward the Cours), Agriculture (toward Marseille), and Fine Arts (toward Avignon), forming a star-shaped road. Ramus, Chabaud, and Ferrat are its creators. First supplied sparingly by the Zola canal (1854), then with full water every day by the Verdon canal (1875), it is now connected to the Provence canal.

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