Provence Provence Provence (, ; ; "Prouvènço" , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône River to the west to the Italian border to the east, and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It largely corresponds with the modern administrative "région" of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and includes the "départements" of Var, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and parts of Alpes-Maritimes and Vaucluse. The largest city of the region is Marseille. The Romans made the region the first Roman province beyond the Alps and called it "Provincia Romana", which
Embrun, Hautes-Alpes starting point for an individual time trial. In 2017, stage 19 of the Tour de France started at Embrun. Embrun was the see of a bishopric since the fourth century, which became a Metropolitan archbishopric in the fourteenth and was suppressed in the French Revolution. Embrun, Hautes-Alpes Embrun (Occitan: "Ambrun", Latin: "Ebrodunum", "Ebrudunum", and "Eburodunum") is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is located between Gap and Briançon and at the eastern end of one of the largest artificial lakes in Western Europe: the Lac de Serre-Ponçon. The Canadian town of