Detailed program
September 23: Puy Sainte Réparade and Château Lacoste
Departure from Lille or Paris
Arrival at Aix TGV
Departure by coach for Puy Sainte Réparade and the La Coste Foundation
Located between Aix-en-Provence and the Luberon National Park, in the heart of miraculously preserved nature, beats the rhythm of an eternal Provence… A landscape so dear to Cézanne. Born from the avant-garde vision of Patrick McKillen, Château La Coste is a vast estate of 200 hectares where the vines in organic farming, art and architecture express themselves freely…
Since the takeover of the Estate in 2002, all projects have been in harmony with nature and the environmental impact of our activities is minimized on a daily basis.
Lunch on site, at the Tadao Ando restaurant,
3-course menu and drinks package (without wine).
Private visit, accompanied by a guide from the Foundation
Tadao Ando,
Louise Bourgeois, Tracy Emin Richard Serra, Tom Shannon, Alexandre Calder, Ai Weiwei, etc.
Return to Aix by private bus
Installation at the Le Concorde 3* hotel (or similar)
Dinner in the city center (name of the restaurant to be specified) 3-course menu and drinks package, wine included.
September 24: LUMA Foundation
Breakfast at the hotel
Departure by coach for Arles
Baggage drop off at the hotel
Departure on foot for the LUMA Foundation
Private visit, accompanied by a guide from the LUMA foundation
The child of the country, Maja Hoffmann, raised at the Tour du Valat created by her father, could have moved away and chosen to invest her fortune from the pharmaceutical empire Hoffmann Roche, far from the Camargue of her childhood. But Maja Hoffmann, far too imbued with this singular land, has chosen to dig her mark right here, in this little Rome, which thanks to her reconnects with its most prestigious history thanks to Luma Arles and its formidable Parc des ateliers.
Lunch at the Réfectoire restaurant, located in the workshop park. 3-course menu and drinks package (without wine)
Departure on foot for the city center of Arles: Visits to two exhibitions. The Rencontres d’Arles is a festival dedicated to photography, the largest of its kind in France with more than 100,000 visitors per edition. For 2 months, around forty exhibitions by the most famous photographers on the planet are to be discovered all over the city. Find out everything there is to know about this unique event in France!
End of the day free Installation at the 3* Le Forum hotel (or similar)
Dinner in town (name of the restaurant to be specified) 3-course menu and drinks package, wines included
Night at the hotel
September 25: The MUCEM
Breakfast at the hotel
Departure by coach for Marseilles,
You leave your suitcases in the bus,
External visit of the Mucem: route through Fort Saint Jean
Self-guided interior visit (entry ticket provided)
Rudy Ricciotti is one of the most recognized architects in the world: creator of the MUCEM in Marseille, he is nicknamed “the virtuoso of concrete”. His prize list includes the Black Pavilion in Aix en Provence, the Islamic Arts wing in the Louvre, the Cocteau Museum in Menton, the Arena in Bordeaux, the Stadium in Vitrolles and the future Chanel house in Aubervilliers.
Lunch in the city center (name of the restaurant to be specified) 3-course menu and drinks package (without wine)
2:30 p.m.: Meet the bus in front of the Mucem
Drop off at Saint Charles station in Marseille
Return by direct TGV to Lille or Paris