Site archéologique de Glanum, Saint-Rémy

Glanum began as a Celtic-Ligurian sanctuary around a sacred spring, was Hellenised under Greek Massalia, then rebuilt as a Roman town after Caesar's conquest. Abandoned and buried by silt after barbarian raids around 260 AD, it lay hidden for centuries; only its Mausoleum and triumphal arch, 'Les Antiques', stood above ground. Excavations from 1921 uncovered a remarkable townscape of temples, baths and houses. Just beside the site stands the monastery of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, where in 1889–90 Vincent van Gogh committed himself to an asylum and, from his barred window and the surrounding fields, painted The Starry Night and dozens of other masterpieces in a year of extraordinary creativity and torment.