L'arrondissement d'Arles est une division administrative de l'État dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône et la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. L'arrondissement fait partie des trois arrondissements des Bouches-du-Rhône créés en 1800. Son chef-lieu est alors la commune de Tarascon. En 1816, le chef-lieu est déplacé à Arles. En 1981, certaines communes de l'arrondissement d'Arles et de celui d'Aix-en-Provence en sont détachées pour former l'arrondissement d'Istres.
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The Barbegal aqueduct and mills was a Roman watermill complex in the commune of Fontvieille, Bouches-du-Rhône, near the town of Arles, in southern France. The complex has been referred to as "the greatest known concentration of mechanical power in the ancient world" and the 16 overshot wheels are considered to be the largest ancient mill complex.
Another similar mill complex existed on the Janiculum in Rome, and there are suggestions that further such complexes existed at other major Roman sites, such as Amida.
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Paradou is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France.
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Maussane-les-Alpilles is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region in Southern France. Part of Alpilles Regional Natural Park, it is located between Saint-Rémy-de-Provence to the north and Saint-Martin-de-Crau to the south.
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Fontvieille is a commune in the camargue region in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France.
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Montmajour Abbey, formally the Abbey of St. Peter in Montmajour, was a fortified Benedictine monastery built between the 10th and 18th centuries on what was originally an island five kilometers north of Arles, in what is now the Bouches-du-Rhône Department, in the region of Provence in the south of France.
The abbey complex consists of six sections:
the hermitage, dating from the 11th century, which includes the Chapel of St. Peter;
the cloister, built during the 12th and 13th centuries;
the adjacent Chapel of the Holy Cross, built during the 12th century;
the fortified Monastery of St. Peter, built during the 14th century;
the Tower of Abbot Pons de l'Orme, dating from the same period;
the Maurist monastery, built in the 17th century.
The abbey is noted for its 11th–14th-century graves, carved in the rock, its subterranean crypt, and its massive unfinished church. It was an important pilgrimage site during the Middle Ages, and in the 18th century it was the site of a large Maurist monastery, now in ruin. The abbey and the landscape around it were frequently painted and drawn by Vincent van Gogh. During the production for the 1968 film, The Lion in Winter that featured the abbey, Katharine Hepburn's dressing room was accommodated in the basement.
It has been listed since 1840 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture. Today the ruins of the abbey are cared for as a historic monument by the Centre des monuments nationaux.
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