Open Road's Best of Provence gives readers a small number of great choices and itineraries for one-day, weekend, one-week and two-week trips. Only the best hotels, restaurants, sights, shopping and activities have been selected for this book. Readers will find a mix of unique trips of varying lenghts for the world's best-preserved Roman ruins, elegant seaside resorts and sun-drenched beaches, and savory cuisine and incredible wine. Highlights include: Arles' Old Town, Roman ruins, cafes and intimate restuaurnts, Aix-en-Provence with its shaded squares and bubbling fountains, 17th-century town houses and the grand main avenue, the old papal village of Avignon, with its large student popluation making it a vibrant small city, some of the world's best preserved Rooman sights in Nimes, "the Rome of France, " cosmopolitan and diverse Marseille, the refined and fun French Riviera, and lovely villages throughout the region. There is also a very useful French-English glossary of useful phrases and words.