By plane

Fly into Marseille or Nice. Marseille is nearer (just south), but budget airlines such as EasyJet prefer Nice. There is a navette (shuttle bus) that can take you from the airport to the bus station near the center of town.

By train

Aix has both a TGV and a regular station and is well connected both to the Paris - Marseille line and (via Marseille) to the Genoa - Nice - Barcelona line. The same shuttle that runs from the airport to Aix also services the Aix TGV station.

By car

If you come from anywhere up north you will most likely use the A7 motorway (Route du Soleil) that runs from Lyon to Marseille (whether you come from Switzerland or from the UK via Paris). At exit 27, take A8 (La Provencale) to Aix. From Spain, you'll take A9 (La Languedocienne), then turn onto A54 through the city of Arles (you might consider stopping there), then turn onto A7 and A8 respectively, as described above. From Italy, just take A8 passing Nice and all the posh Côte d'Azur resorts.

Cours Mirabeau

The Cours Mirabeau is a wide thoroughfare in Aix-en-Provence, France.The street has wide sidewalks planted with double rows of plane-trees. The Cours Mirabeau is decorated by fountains, the most notable of which is La Rotonde, a large fountain that makes up a roundabout at one end of the street. The street also divides Aix into two portions, the Quartier Mazarin, a.k.a. the new town, which extends to the south and west, and the Ville comtale, a.k.a. the old town, which lies to the north with its wide but irregular streets and its old mansions dating from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

Aix Cathedral

Aix Cathedral in Aix-en-Provence in southern France is a Roman Catholic cathedral and the seat of the Archbishop of Aix. It is built on the site of the 1st century Roman forum of Aix. Built and re-built from the 12th until the 19th century, it includes Romanesque, Gothic and Neo-Gothic elements, as well as Roman columns and parts of the baptistery from a 6th century Christian church. It is a national monument of France.
 

Natural History Museum

The Museum d’Histoire Naturelle Aix en Provence is a natural history museum in Aix en Provence, France.The museum contains the collections of Louis Charles Joseph Gaston de Saporta,Casimir de Barrigue,Comte de Montvallon,Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville,Henri Coquand,Eugenie Louise Valentine Rostan-d'Abancourt,Philippe Felix Sextius Aude,Raymond Paul Dughi,Ernest Gustave Gobert.

Le Pavillon de Vendome

Le Pavillon de Vendome, a 17th century mansion housing permanent and touring art exhibitions.

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