Glanum is a fascinating site, with layers of Gallic, Greek and finally Roman civic construction. The presence of Greece was especially interesting. Greece founded and had a strong presence in Marseille, but this was the first evidence of their presence thus far on our explorations.
St. Remy is also famous as the city where Vincent van Gogh spend the last year's of his life, mostly as a patient in a mental hospital. Many of his most famous paintings date from this period, and are based on things he saw here.
BTW, we stopped at a picnic table at the entrance to Glanum for a typical French lunch: cheese, bread, sausage, and an apple.
There were a few heavy downpours on the walk back to the Château, but we were able to find shelter and arrived reasonably dry.
Today's music. A very popular young singer doing a cover of Edith Piaf (almost 3 million views).
Here's the original.
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