Cours Victor Hugo

The Cours Victor Hugo is a prestigious avenue in the center of Salon de Provence. It joins the Cours Carnot by Moussue fountain. It is the place where, once they started to build houses outside the medieval town, all the citizens built a home. They were called "private hotels". The whole family lived on two or three floors. Now it is the headquarters of banks, chocolate shops, cafes and a few restaurants. It is hard to imagine that these old houses then represented modernity. People fled the medieval centre with its poor hygienic conditions, to build a "civilized" place, where the streets were