Vincent Van Gogh Museum - City Arles

Old hospital courtyard - Arles 2007

This is the hospital courtyard where Vincent stayed after cutting his ear lobe. Today the old hospital courtyard looks almost exactly like Vincent's painting of 1889looks almost exactly like Vincent's painting of 1889

Arles was an inward-looking depressed town when Van Gogh lived in the late nineteenth century. Today Arles is a major town on the tourist circuit, its fame sealed by the extraordinarily well-preserved Roman arena. It was the key city of the region in Roman times