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The first town hall in Arles was a medieval building, between to the Palais des Podestats on the Plan de La Cour, and the clock tower, which dated back to the early 16th century. [2] [3] The clock tower itself was surmounted by a bronze statue of the god, Mars, which was cast by Laurent Vincent of Avignon in 1515. [4]
The church was built upon the site of the 5th-century basilica of Arles, named for St. Stephen. [1] In the 15th century a Gothic choir was added to the Romanesque nave. Along with other medieval and Roman buildings in Arles, in 1981 the church was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments group ...
The abbey of Saint-Jean was founded on 26 August 512 by the Archbishop of Arles, Caesarius, who appointed his sister Caesaria as first abbess. This foundation followed a first attempt to settle outside the walls in the years 506–507 that was destroyed by Frankish and Burgundian troops during the siege of Arles in 507–508.
Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments (French: Arles, monuments romains et romans) [1] is an area containing a collection of monuments in the city centre of Arles, France, that has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981. The official brief description for this as a World Heritage Site is:
The medieval writer Antoine de la Sale was probably born in Arles around 1386; Antoine de Seguiran, 18th-century encyclopédiste; Blessed Jean Marie du Lau, last Archbishop of Arles, killed by the revolutionary mob in Paris on 2 September 1792; Laure Favre-Kahn (born 1976), classical pianist; Home of the Gipsy Kings, a music group from Arles
The arrondissement of Arles is an arrondissement of France in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 29 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 171,575 (2021), and its area is 2,031.5 km 2 (784.4 sq mi).
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Facade of the Museum in Rue de la République. Museon Arlaten ("Arles Museum" in Provençal dialect of Occitan ) is a museum dedicated to the ethnography of Provence . It is located in Arles , at 29, rue de la République, and it is housed in the 15th century hôtel particulier Laval-Castellane, [ 1 ] now a monument historique .