The town, which is the seat of an archbishop and court of appeal, and the centre of an acadmie (educational circumscription), numbers among its public institutions a Court of assizes, tribunals of first instance and of commerce, and a chamber of arts and manufactures. It also has training-colleges, a lyce, a school of art and technics, museums of antiquities, natural history and painting, and several learned societies.
Aix is often referred to as the city of a thousand fountains. Among them are the Fontaine des Quatre Dauphins (Fountain of the Four Dolphins), built in 1667 by Jean-Claude Rambot; King Ren’s Fountain, built in the 19th century, of Roi Ren holding a bunch of Muscat grapes, which he introduced into Provence; the hot-water fountain dating back to 1734, which is covered in moss due to the 35C (93F) water; and the great fountain, from 1860, at La Rotonde, the large roundabout at the center of town.
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