While France is flourished with beautiful gothic buildings, there are also quite a bit of other historical sites including ancient roman.  Arles is a city that is occupied with magnificent ancient Roman monuments.  Arles is right by a big river that passes through the Provence region, Rhone River.

My host family and I went to the Arlatan Museum where it’s filled with many treasures of Provence.  This museum explains a great deal about the history of Provence by displaying many artifacts that come from as far as hundreds of years.

Les Arènes is a grand ancient roman artifact like the Colosseum in Rome, Italy.  It’s one of the most well-preserved Roman monument in Provence.  A very important note to make -  GO TO THE TOP! Tourists can get an incredible panoramic view of Arles by going to the top.

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Théâtre Antique is another incredible ancient Roman monument that has 2,000 tiered seats arranged in a hemisphere. It was once a fortress.

Thermo Bath is another ancient Roman monument in Arles.

After visiting all these monuments, we continued to walk throughout the city.