Dates and Provisional Price
Sunday 18 April 27 – Saturday 24 April 27
Provisional Price: pp sharing a room:
€ 1190 if we have 35 participants
€ 1230 if we have 30 participants.
Single supplement € 442.
Downpayment before 25 June: €250 pp.
Priority for members. Non Members price: € 50 extra.
Included:
. 3 nights in Nice: HOTEL IBIS NICE CENTRE GARE ***
. 2 nights in Arles, HOTEL MIREILLE ***
. 1 night in Aix en Provence, HOTEL ESCALETTO ***
all hotels incl breakfast
. entrance fees Matisse Museum, Chagall Museum, Maeght Foundation, LUMA, Amphi theater Arles, Psychiatric hospital St Remy,
. guided tours: Chagall Museum, Matisse Museum, old town Nice, Arles including Roman theatre and LUMA, Chateau La Coste
. Welcome dinner in Nice and Farewell dinner in Aix en Provence
. coach to Museums Chagall and Matisse, from Nice to Arles via St Paul de Vence, from Arles to Aix en Provence.
. basic travel insurance
Not included:
. flights, so you can go sooner or stay longer. Arrange your own flight to Nice and wherever you want to go afterwards from Aix en Provence. The flights to Nice usually have a stopover in Barcelona. From Aix to Nice there is a direct flight to Málaga.
. transport to and from airports.
. cancellation insurance. Our Travel Agent Verano Azul offers a full insurance for €35 for EU residents and €45 for residents who come from outside the EU. It depends on where you want to be repatriated to and whether you prolong your visit to France. Contact Ana Godoy for further information and a made to measure insurance: 0034 658327707 (also whatsapp) or [email protected]. It is advised to take out the cancellation insurance before or when you pay the downpayment.
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Programme:
Visiting Nice, St Paul de Vence, Arles, and Aix en Provence, we will follow in the footsteps of great artists like:
Chagall, who lived in St Paul de Vence and whose Museum opened in Nice while he was still alive, the first French national museum for a living artist,
Matisse, who lived on the Côte d’Azur nearly all his life, the Mediterranean light transformed his art and many of his works were inspired by Nice,
van Gogh who lived in Arles for 15 months in the Yellow House and produced over 200 paintings here, where he cut off his ear and we will visit the psychiatric hospital he stayed at afterwards in St Remy and painted his famous Starry Night.
Frank Gehry, who built an amazing museum for contemporary art in Arles inspired by one of van Gogh´s paintings.
We will visit amazing art in the Chagall Museum and the Matisse Museum in Nice, the LUMA contemporary art museum in Arles, but also 2 stunning private art collections, one of which is the Maeght Foundation in St Paul de Vence, one of the most important modern art collections in Europe of paintings, drawings, 20thc sculptures in a museum and sculpture garden with works by Chagall, Miró, Giacometti, Hepworth etc. The foundation is famous for its collection but also for the building, designed by the Spanish architect Josep Lluis Sert. Art, architecture and Mediterranean landscape are integrated together.
https://www.fondation-maeght.com
The second private collection is Château La Coste, a huge art collection in buildings by top architects like Oscar Niemeyer, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry and in the outside space and vineyards of 500 hectares near Aix en Provence where you can walk for 2-3 hours to see stunning art by Louise Bourgois, Calder, Ai Weiwei, Richard Serra and many others in a stunning landscape.
https://chateau-la-coste.com/en
We will also have a guided tour of Arles, which will include a visit to a Roman UNESCO World heritage site, the amphitheatre in Arles, one of the best kept ones in France, built in 90 AD for 20.000 visitors and the museum for contemporary art built by Frank Gehry.
We end the tour in Aix en Provence where Cezanne was born and where he painted the nearby mountain Sainte-Victoire many times. It is known as the city of a thousand fountains, it is one of the most elegant and cultured cities in Southern France, known for its fountains, shaded boulevards, markets and Provencal atmosphere.
Provisional Itinerary
Day 1: Sunday 18 Nice
Fly to Nice. Overnight in Nice
Day 2: Monday 19 Nice
morning: Chagall Museum and Matisse Museum
afternoon: free time
evening: Welcome dinner in Nice
Overnight in Nice
Day 3: Tuesday 20 Nice
Morning: Guided walking tour old town of Nice, which is only French since the end of the 19thc, before that it was Italian which gives it a special flavour. We will see the cathedral, The Russian church, the boulevards, the harbour.
Afternoon and evening free time.
Overnight in Nice.
Day 4: Wednesday 21 St Paul de Vence / Arles
Morning: Departure by coach to St Paul de Vence (30 mins) to visit the Maeght Foundation which has an impressive collection on Contemporary Art like Chagall,
Miró, Kandinsky, Matisse.
Afternoon: Free time for lunch and gallery visits in St Paul de Vence
We continue to Arles, 3 hours. Coffee stop on the way. Overnight in Arles.
Day 5: Thursday 22 Arles
Morning: Guided Walking tour Arles, visiting World Heritage Roman amphitheatre and LUMA contemporary Art Center
Afternoon: free time. Recommended: van Gogh walk, a Self guided walk to see places he painted and the Fondation Vincent van Gogh. Overnight in Arles.
Day 6: Friday 23 St Remy and Aix en Provence
Morning: Monastery of St Paul de Mausole in St Remy, van Gogh´s psychiatric hospital, (40 minutes drive) where he painted 150 paintings ,like the Irisses and the Starry Night. There is a walk of 20 min.
Coach to Chateau La Coste: 1 hour
12.00 Guided tour Chateau La Coste – Le Puy: private art collection (sculpture garden and museum) and winetasting (vineyard of 500 hectares)
End of afternoon: departure to Aix en Provence (22 mins by coach)
Farewell dinner in Aix
Hotel in Aix en Provence
Day 7: Saturday 24: Aix en Provence
Free time to roam around the town and then at your leisure to the airport (30 mins)
There is an early evening flight direct to Málaga about 18.30
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Cancellation policy
Downpayment is non refundable. We can only return payment if we can find someone to take your place. Please take out a full cancellation insurance!
Disclaimer
The Arts Society Nerja (G92341148) accepts no responsibility or liability for any acts, omissions, accidents, injury, or illness suffered by or caused by any participant in connection with this trip.
By making a booking and payment of a deposit, the participant confirms acceptance of these Terms and Conditions, whether or not a separate written confirmation has been provided.
All special dietary requirements will be passed on to third-party providers included in the itinerary. However, The Arts Society Nerja cannot guarantee or be held responsible for their ability to accommodate such requests.
Cancellations and refunds are only possible if a replacement participant can be found from the waiting list maintained by the Travel Team. No refund can be guaranteed otherwise.
Participants are strongly advised to take out appropriate travel insurance, including cancellation insurance, to cover unforeseen circumstances.
