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Extract from the Aix-en-Provence Travel Guides:
AIX-EN-PROVENCE
would be the dominant city of central Provence were it not for the great metropolis of Marseille, just 25km away. Historically, culturally and socially, the two cities are moons apart and the tendency is to love one and hate the other. Aix is complacently conservative and a stunningly beautiful place, its riches based on landowning and the liberal professions. The youth of Aix are immaculately dressed; hundreds of foreign students, particularly Americans, come to study here; and there's a certain snobbishness, almost of Parisian proportions.
From the twelfth century until the Revolution, Aix was the capital of P... read the whole Aix-en-Provence Travel Guides...
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