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| - Upper Cours Sextius - |
Less
noble, less ostentatious, and certainly less "modern" than the Cours
Mirabeau and the Quartier Mazarin, the streets between "Jacques
de la Roque - Gaston de Saporta" and the "Cours Sextius" speak
loud their origins. "Les Etiuves" evoke thermal waters dating
from pre-Roman times, l'école", the first (cathedral) school
of Aix-en-Provence, the "rue des Nobles" speaks for itself,
and the rue des Muletiers was, we are told, the rallying point for
tradesmen on their way to and from Marseille and the alps. The junction
of the rue du Bon Pasteur - so called after a hostel built in 1629
for "repentant" Aixoises, Filles du Bon Pasteur. Marks
the Roman crossroads, cardo (north- south artery), and decumanus
(east-west)
leading to and from the forum. It is safe to assume that the proximity
of warm springs marks a meeting of ways trodden by travelling mankind
long before Romulus was born. |
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