4 Best Performing Arts Venues in Nîmes and Arles, Provence

Housed in the beautiful Chapelle St-Martin du Méjan, this arts organization hosts a year-round program of classical and sacred music; a revolving series of exhibitions featuring painting, sculpture, and photography; and the superb Arles Jazz Festival, held every year in May.

Run by a large publishing house, this arts complex has a first-rate movie theater.

Starting late July, this Alpilles-wide contemporary arts festival fills nearly 15 venues in several towns, most prominently in St-Rémy. It aims to promote a diversity of disciplines and encourages exchange between artists and audience.

Arles’s epicenter for contemporary theater, dance, circus, music, and spoken-word performances that encourage experimentation. The theater promotes new, young voices.