With its fabulous artistic heritage, glorious light, glitzy resorts and mouth-watering food, it's little wonder that the Provence-French Riviera region is the second most-visited in France after Paris.
And Marseille, the rejuvenated 2013 European Capital of Culture, can now claim to be one of the Mediterranean's most vibrant cities.
Be inspired by this thoroughly updated edition of Insight Guide Provence and the French Riviera , a detailed full-colour guide to this glamorous region.