About the city
Arles is a city in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhone department, of which it is a sub prefecture, in the former province of Provence. The Rhone river forks into two branches just upstream of Arles, forming the Camargue delta.
Because the Camargue is administratively part of Arles, the commune as a whole is the largest commune in Metropolitan France in terms of territory, although its population is only slightly more than 50,000. Its area is 758.93 km², which is more than seven times the area of Paris. Chico Bouchikhi, co-founder of the Gypsy Kings, as well as the rest of the band, are from Arles.