The second is famous all over the world. His writings hit the headlines, the "Centuries". You guessed it, it's Michel de Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus. Every year, the city pays homage to him on the first weekend of July. On this occasion, the city reenacts the arrival of Catherine de Medici coming to consult the great "mage".

Salon de Provence also hosts an air base and its flying school, but above all the Patrouille de France and the Air Force aerobatic team.

Even if this city has lost its grandeur compared to my childhood, it is still interesting to see with the Château de l'Empéri, the Savonneries to make Marseille Soap.

The history of Salon-de-Provence is old. The Roman Aurelian way passes not far from the city, a way that you can discover by taking the old town of Grans, it is also called "Via Flavia".
It is in the center of the zone delimited by Massilia ( Marseille), Aquæ Sextiæ (Aix-en-Provence), Arelate (Arles) and Avenio (Avignon). Salon-de-Provence appears as Villa Salone in the counts of the possessions of Saint Sauveur de Marseille in 871. The city is also famous for Nostradamus (Michel de NostreDame), who lived and died there in 1566 as well as d 'Adam de Craponne, his contemporary, was a French engineer who allowed the irrigation of the Crau by the construction of the canal that bears his name.