Saint-Rémy & Les Baux Tour with Olive Oil Tasting

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Duration6h

GroupUp to 8

LanguagesEN · FR

PickupAt your hotel

Walk through Van Gogh's refuge and taste the Alpilles' olive oil, then stand before an ancient Roman aqueduct

This small-group tour in the Alpilles region of Provence starts in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and moves through four distinct stops: the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole Monastery where Van Gogh lived, the Roman ruins at Les Antiques, a family-run olive oil estate for a guided AOP tasting, the hilltop village of Les Baux-de-Provence, and the Pont du Gard UNESCO World Heritage aqueduct. The tour runs six hours with a live English or French-speaking guide and includes hotel pickup, olive oil tasting, and entry to Pont du Gard; lunch is not included.

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Alpilles and Pont du Gard

Visit Saint-Rémy-de-Provence village
Stop at Les Antiques Roman ruins
Pass Saint-Paul-de-Mausole Monastery
Olive oil tasting at family estate
Explore Les Baux-de-Provence village
Visit Pont du Gard aqueduct

The Experience

The day begins in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, a village in the heart of the Alpilles Regional Natural Park with the kind of narrow streets and shuttered stone houses that define Provençal charm. Your guide walks you past the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole Monastery, where Vincent van Gogh spent nearly a year as a patient and painted some of his most recognized work—the building itself is the landmark, and the connection to his time there shapes how you move through the village. A short stop at Les Antiques, the Roman entrance to the ancient city of Glanum, gives you the scale of what stood here two millennia ago.

At the foot of Les Baux-de-Provence, you step into a family-run olive oil estate for a guided tasting of AOP Baux-de-Provence oils—the "green gold" the region is known for. This is not a shop visit; the tasting is structured, and you learn what distinguishes the oils from this specific valley. Afterward, you climb into Les Baux itself, a village perched on a rocky spur and classified among France's most beautiful. The streets are steep and characterful, and you have free time to wander, photograph the panorama, and sit with the view across the Alpilles.

The final leg crosses the Rhône to reach the Pont du Gard, a first-century Roman aqueduct built to carry water to the city of Nîmes and now a UNESCO World Heritage site. You walk the structure itself—three tiers of arches stacked above the river—and the scale and engineering are visible in a way photographs do not convey. Your guide is with you throughout; the tour is built around what you see and taste, not around a schedule that rushes between stops.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and drop-off.
a live guide in English or French.
entry to the Pont du Gard.
and a guided tasting of AOP Baux-de-Provence olive oils at a family estate.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePets welcome

Operated by Provence Excursions

Is this one for you?Choose this if you want four distinct Alpilles landmarks—Roman ruins, Van Gogh's monastery, an olive oil estate, and a hilltop village—visited in sequence within one morning-to-afternoon block, so you experience each without backtracking between them.