Aix-en-Provence - Musée du Vieil Aix

In Aix-en-Provence, passing through the clock tower and continuing north along rue Gaston de Saporta, with its fine town houses, we come to the Musée du Vieil Aix (museum of civic history), which is located in the 17th C. Hôtel Estienne de St-Jean (No. 17).

Also in rue Gaston de Saporta are the Hôtel de Châteaurenard, with its richly decorated staircase, and the Hôtel de Maynier d'Oppède, once the seat of the Faculty of Letters.

The Museum of Old Aix is housed in a 17th century mansion with furniture, costumes, earthenware, and lifelike nativity crib puppets on display.