Vincent's Arles: As It Is and as It Was

A vivid tour of the town of Arles, guided by one of its most famous visitors: Vincent van Gogh.

Once admired as “a little Rome” on the banks of the Rhône, the town of Arles in the south of France had been a place of significance long before the painter Vincent van Gogh arrived in February of 1888. Aware of Arles’s history as a haven for poets, van Gogh spent an intense fifteen months there, scouring the city’s streets and surroundings in search of subjects to paint when he wasn’t thinking ...