Fontaine Amedee Pichot

COLOURS STILL FINE

Named after the man who commissioned the work, it dates from 1887. Its inspiration was a work at Place Saint Michel in Paris. If you arrive by train and head south, this will likely be the first struc...

It used to be a fountain

Fontaine Amedee Pichot is near the entrance to Arles coming from the train station (Gare d’Arles) and going toward the Arena. The fountain doesn’t work or at least it wasn’t working when my wife and ...

nice

no longer a fountain but the 'facade' is still very nice. it was the first thing we saw when we entered the old city from our parking.

Nice former fountain

Although no longer a working fountain the picture and sculpture is well worth looking at when walking round Arles. It is on the historic route round the town.

The medallion on the wall is remembered better than the fountain.

Tourists visit Arles for the ancient heritage, like me, for instance, for van Gogh. Those tourists are searching Arles of the end of the XIX century, which remained on the paintings of the most expen...