Marché de Saint-Rémy

The Wednesday market in Saint-Rémy is the long inland morning ritual the Alpilles villa rentals build the week around — the stalls through the centre, the bouquinistes, the produce and the olives, the long café at the plaza after the walk. The market is the rare Provence morning event that runs year-round and the most photographed of the Alpilles villages.

Take the morning at 10h, walk the stalls, sit at the plaza café for the long coffee. The morning is the right Saint-Rémy answer for the slow Wednesday that wants the proper market — and the kind of address that the long-stay families take across the seasons for the produce as much as the morning.

The Wednesday market on the long Alpilles morning.