On June 17th, some 2,000 years after its construction, the Theatre Antique in Orange, will lift the curtain for its 142nd annual Les Chorégies d’Orange festival, the oldest festival in France. If you are traveling in Provence, don’t miss the opportunity to attend one of the lyrical and musical performances in this extraordinary venue: the performers world renown, the acoustics considered perfect, and the venue extraordinary. You are guaranteed to be transported to another world. If you know Provence, you know that the Romans, who hailed over the region from the 2nd century BC to 5th century AD, left much behind. Besides its name–Provence comes from the Latin word, Provincia–the architectural ruins in Provence rival the “Roman ruins” in any other area of the world. They are so ubiquitous that on an ordinary drive through the countryside near our apartment, one can see a perfectly intact Roman bridge, the remains of a Roman road, and several sets of pillars from Roman aqueducts that once graced the area. (So ubiquitous are the aqueduct remains that we did not visit the famous Pont de Gard for many years because I harbored the ill-conceived idea that I’d already seen enough aqueducts and didn’t [...]