We started later today and reached Arles in time for lunch. We had an awesome white wine and terrific lunch (though a minor translation issue meant my mom and I got liver instead of beef). We checked out the church there , St. Trophime d’Arles and it’s connected cloister. The church was dark and damp and seemed in disrepair but has been active for a very long time. It had a reliquary with the bones of many saints.
We also saw the colleseum and theater, or what was left of them. The colleseum was in far worse shape than the one we visited the day before. on the way back we stopped put at Chateau Neuf de Pape, which is in the wine region Cote du Rhone. The Chateau itself was destroyed by Nazis after the war and was the only home of the Papacy outside of the Vatican (during that short period of 3 popes; the Polish pope ended up dying, and the French pope resigned returning the papacy to Rone where it’s been ever since)
