Some family suites have inter-connecting doors. Family Suites have two bedrooms, living room with a double sofa bed, and separate den with a single sofa bed. The four studio cabins require no singles supplement. All cabins come with coffee maker and complimentary coffee and cream. Each cabin has television, safe, satellite-dial telephone, and air-conditioning. Other highlights include Avignon, Tournon and Lyon.Balcony Staterooms add a small vanity table, and have a full-height sliding door opening to a narrow balcony. Plan to see them this year before the tourists rediscover Arles.Īrles is a destination on the Colors of Provence Rhone river itineraries of AmaWaterways AmaKristina beginning in March and running through December.
Just let the spirit move you and you’ll see why. We can only imagine what went on inside his troubled mind in those days, but we’re fortunate to have some clues in the way he interpreted the city in his paintings.Īrles has inspired generations of artists.
Um…let’s enjoy the building and its courtyard that still looks exactly as he painted it. In the former hospital where he was patched up and treated for delirium, they even sell action figures with detachable ears in a gift shop. Dog walk along the river–Photo by Wallace Immen with homage to Vincent van Gogh Famously, Paul Gauguin came to join him for a couple of tumultuous months that ended with the famous freak-out in which the genius used a knife to cut off a chunk of his left ear (and in some versions of the story gifted it to lady of the starry night). The café that Van Gogh made famous now sports his name–photo by Wallace Immen with homage to VincentĮventually, Vincent set up a studio in a place known as the Yellow House, where he embellished his now famous style of swirling brush strokes of bold colors.Īrles was a center of artists even then and van Gogh had lots of competitors to critique his work. Although it was closed for the season during our visit, the café’s walls are adorned with streaks of gorgeously evocative hues. We walk to one of his haunts, the Café du Forum, that inspired the famous painting Café Terrace at Night. Van Gough rented rooms and wandered Arles and the countryside day and night in search of inspiration. Shop display in Arles with homage to van Gogh–Stylized photo by Wallace Immen He was escaping the bustle and frustrations of life in Paris and he sought out the vivid colors and more predictable sunshine of Provence. The tour visits locales that are remarkably unchanged from the time Vincent arrived in Arles in the winter of 1888. Bicyclist in Arles a la van Gogh–Photo by Wallace Immen stylized in homage of Vincent The twisting narrow streets and brilliant skies that have inspired generations of artists are nearly deserted. It’s December and the leaves have fallen, revealing the incredibly gnarly branches and mottle bark of the iconic French plane trees that line the roads. David is an American art historian who has lived for many years in Arles studying and teaching “because it’s always so beautiful here.” Bistro in Arles as van Gogh might have interpreted it–Photo by Wallace Immen with homage to Vincent These scenes from an art tour of Arles are tweaked with some Photoshop stylization–and with profound homage to the brilliant artist whose techniques have fascinated us for a century and a half.ĪmaWaterways has found an extraordinary guide for our tour to help us envision the streets through Vincent’s starry eyes. We’re here with a small group from an AmaWaterways Rhone River cruise aboard AmaKristina to savor scenes that are little changed from the nineteenth century. Shopper heads home in Arles–Photo by Wallace Immen stylized in homage to van Gogh
So, let’s have a little fun and imagine these scenes as Vincent might have. It’s a golden opportunity to see the places that inspired many of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous artworks stripped to the basics, much as he would have seen them. On a late fall cruise in France, we have the normally busy streets of Arlesbasically to ourselves. If there’s an upside to the continuing uncertainly about travel it’s that you can see normally touristy places like a local.
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