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Certain artists are so closely linked with particular places that it is hard to separate ____.

____ and Van Gogh are like that.

Arles is located five hours ____ of Paris and is well known for its magical light and colorful landscape.

The most famous ____ of this town was Vincent van Gogh.

Leaving behind the gray skies of ____, he arrived in Arles in 1888.

The town ____ an explosion of creativity.

Vincent claimed, “The ____ future of art is to be found in the south of France.”

He worked enthusiastically and produced ____ 200 paintings in just fifteen months.

None of Vincent’s works are left in Arles now, but today you ____ see a number of them have been recreated in street-side panels.

Let’s follow Vincent’s ____ that remain in Arles.

Arles is an ancient city dating ____ to Roman times.

Many ____ buildings remain, including an arena that was built in 90 A.D.

The arena ____ to seat over 20,000 people who would go to watch various entertaining events.

Vincent sometimes went to the bullfights that were ____ in the arena every Sunday.

He ____ liked to watch the colorful crowds.

He told a ____ that he found the crowds fascinating.

They inspired the painting ____ at Arles.

The arena is in the top right corner of the painting and is ____ visible.

Below, ____ is a faint image of two bulls.

However, ____ paid lots of attention to the people and their colorful clothes.

____ of the people are chatting with friends, others are cheering on the bulls, and the entire painting has a powerful energy.

____ painted the world-famous Café Terrace at Night in September 1888.

He created this work ____ sitting outside the Café van Gogh at night.

This was unusual because most painters did their night scenes from memory and worked during the ____.

As such, they ____ a lot of black paint.

____, however, believed that night scenes contained diverse and vibrant colors.

Indeed, the Café Terrace at Night has such a rich harmony of yellows, blues, and oranges that Vincent ____ not have to use a single drop of black paint.

Even today, there is ____ a café at the site of Vincent’s painting.

It was renovated in the 1990s and ____ yellow to look like the café in the painting.

However, it is uncertain whether the ____ of the original café was yellow or not.

The reason is that ____ painted the wall of the café yellow to show the lamp light.

In ____ 1888, Vincent suffered from a mental illness and was sent to the hospital in Arles.

He stayed there for five ____.

During this time, his mental ____ improved, and the doctors allowed him to paint outdoors.

Vincent took advantage of this freedom and produced several beautiful ____, such as The Garden of the Hospital in Arles.

The picture ____ a spring garden filled with flowers and trees with different colors and tones.

The flowers are in full bloom, and the ____ trees are leafy.

The big trees, however, ____ few leaves.

This is rather odd given that the ____ is spring.

Perhaps this contrast reflects the painter’s complex feelings ____ the most difficult time of his life.

The hospital closed in the 1980s, and the building reopened as a library and exhibition space, with a café and gift ____.

The garden was renovated to resemble ____ painting as much as possible.

Arles and its provincial countryside inspired Vincent to create brighter, more exciting ____.

He had searched for brighter colors and softer ____ in Paris.

In Arles, he ____ them.

Today, more ____ 200 years later, this beautiful city remains just as attractive.

The combination of Roman ____ sites and Vincent’s story creates a unique mood that will inspire you just as the city had inspired Vincent.