Le Réfectoire

Arles


You won't find a much better lunch venue than this convivial canteen within the emergent cultural centre Fondation Luma. The food is light and colourful, with a strong emphasis on veggies and organic wholefoods. Expect dishes such as tabbouleh of carrots, lentils and celery, stuffed purple aubergines, quinoa salads, and more filling mains like roast Ventoux pork.


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1. Fondation Luma

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Arles' already-bulging cultural landscape avidly awaits this new cutting-edge gallery and arts centre, rising inexorably at a defunct railway depot in the…

2. Les Alyscamps

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Testament to the significance of Roman Arles, this grand processional avenue of tombs and sarcophagi holds more than 1500 years of corpses (which Roman…

3. Église Notre Dame de la Major

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Complicated restoration projects mean this 12th-century church, dominating Arles from the highest point in the city, can only be admired from outside…

4. Les Arènes

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In Roman Gaul, every important town had an amphitheatre, where gladiators and wild animals met their (usually grisly) ends. Few examples have survived,…

5. Théâtre Antique

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It's easy to admire the grace and engineering of this theatre – built at the behest of the unofficial first Roman Emperor, Augustus, in the 1st century BC…

6. Église St-Trophime

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Named for Arles' semi-mythical first archbishop, this Romanesque-style church, built over a 5th-century basilica, was a cathedral until the bishopric…

7. Hôtel de Ville

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Completed in 1676, and still the seat of Arles' government, the handsome Town Hall is also the entrance to the subterranean Roman Cryptoportiques.

8. Cryptoportiques

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The origins of these fascinating underground chambers, now sitting below the current city centre, go at least back to the first Roman colony in Arles in…