At the end of March, the managers of Café la Nuit in the southern French town of Arles couldn't take advantage of the Easter holidays for one simple reason: The establishment had been closed for legal ...

In February 1888, it took Vincent van Gogh 18 hours to reach Arles from Paris by train. Once there, he found a room at the ...

Can Tokyoites ever get enough of cats? Not only are felines taking over the internet – they're also expanding their presence from our fair city's homes, alleyways and parks to stores, cafés and ...

Among Van Gogh’s most intriguing Arles paintings is The Night Café (September 1888), depicting the Café de la Gare, where he would drink in the evenings, often with his friend the postman Joseph ...

The retro furniture betrays this quirky coffee shop’s ’70s origins. Cafe Arles sits just far enough from the central Shinjuku to be spared a constant influx of shoppers, meaning that you can spend a ...

The Roman colony turned artists’ haven is rich with ruins and creative energy. The ancient city of Arles, in France’s Provence region, where Vincent van Gogh painted some of his most famous works, ...

Good luck buying a train ticket to Arles, France, a place hard for Anglophones to pronounce. Make a sound at the ticket counter as if clearing your throat from years of Gauloises cigarettes. Or use a ...

Vincent van Gogh created ‘Starry Night Over the Rhône’ when living in the city of Arles in Provence (Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Patrice Schmidt) Arles has burst out of its medieval walls ...