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Here's how to plan a trip to Aix-en-Provence that’s "parfait." As a travel writer with a fondness for the South of France, my love of its quaint hilltop villages, lavender fields, glimmering ...

“When I first imagined Aix, one opera above all others was singing in my head,” recalled Gabriel Dussurget, the man who in 1948 put Aix-en-Provence firmly on the map as a festival city. “Fiordiligi ...