Time travel in Provence is probably the most comfortable and pleasant possible. Like the whole vacation in France, food and wine are amazing here, hospitable owners take care of the elegance of the table as exhaustively as the profit. And be sure of any corner that you attracted, you will find a shelter and a table just as you dreamed, and the appearance of the ruins will be picturesque, as if they were not touched by the rest of the restorer. A traveler who comes to Provence falls into a series of holidays wandering from city to city. For the holidays are the essence of Provencal life. Cities are competed with art festivals, festivities, balls or just bazaar days, which are also a holiday. But the most Provencal holidays arrange Arl and him. The ancient Romans who built the amphitheaters, which were and remain the main arena of the festivities, took care of this. Alfons Dode perfectly explained to us what role the Roman amphitheater plays in the life of a resident of Provence. “His name was Jean. It was a wonderful twenty -year -old peasant guy. The women were useful, the women looked at him, but he had only one pretty Arletsian on his mind, all in velvet and lace, which he accidentally met at the Arlsky amphitheater “. Arlesian, created by the imagination of Alphonse Dode, became the heroine of the symphonic suite of Georges Bizet. And the whole world recognized the touching story of farmer Jean to the windy and beautiful Arlezianka, who, becoming a secret mistress of one, decided to go beyond the other. As you know, the secret was revealed, the marriage was upset. And the one -man, Jean did not manage to survive the crashes of love and committed suicide. Let the Arlezian women dress up today in traditional scarlet velvet and white lace, for example, on the first of May, when the whole city chooses the queen of Arle, they are still beautiful, and in a different manner, and are distinguished by an infectiously cheerful disposition. According to the rules, the queen should cover the city with its beauty for exactly three years, and only the next coronation liberates it from a vow not to get married. However, now Arle chooses the queen annually, it looks like attracting tourists. Annually Arle and they meet Easter Spanish Corrida when Torero and Matador play with life and death in the amphitheater arena. Spanish Matadors and Spanish bulls participate in the corrid of Spanish. And in the summer, corridd is arranged here in the Provencal manner. Black bulls of Kamarga (protected area in the Rona delta) with large horns sticking upwards participate in it. These bulls, decorated with elegant cords between horns, are driven along the streets. The Matador case get the cockade, by wielding a special stick with a metal tip. They say that this kind of Corrida is not so dangerous for the bull and man, but it requires sufficient dexterity and courage.
