Panorama of the Old City of Arles

Arles is a UNESCO World Heritage site for its Roman & Medieval Monuments. This is what this panoramic view attempts to show.
On the far left corner, the church tower is that of St. Julien's. The next two square towers are above the arches of the Roman Amphitheater. Because in the Middle Ages part of the city was built in the amphitheater as a protection against invaders. The towers are called the Saracen Towers and were standing at the four corners. The steeple in the centre belongs to another church called St. Charles. The long, low building on the Rhône riverbank used to be the Palace of the Order of Malta. It is now a museum called Musée Réattu. Lastly, the tall square tower on the far right is St. Trophime's basilica. This is a splendid Romanesque church standing on the town main square, next to its cloister and the archbishop palace.
The Rhône River is at its widest in Arles as it takes a sudden curve towards the sea. In the Middle Ages, Arles had a renown cemetery called Les Alyscamps (both Van Gogh & Gauguin made paintings of the Alyscamps). At the time, corpses were let drifting down the current so that they would be collected and buried at Les Alyscamps.