Narrow street to Musée Arlaten

Like most Mediterranean cities, Arles-en-Provence is a maze of narrow streets. They provide shade in the warm season but they are also a protection against the strong high wind that blows from the north locally known as the Mistral.
This downtown street leads to Musée Arlaten. This former Renaissance palace hosts the folk museum of Provence. When Frédéric Mistral was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1904, he used the money to create this fine museum. One of Mistral's Provençal poem Mirèio ('Mireille', published in 1859) became a source of inspiration for Charles Gounod's opera 'Mireille' in 1863.
Arles has such a rich heritage of history & culture!