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Route from Lyon to Marseille without a car, taking in small cute towns

Hello
We'll be flying into Lyon and flying out of Marseille and spending 8 days.
We're not interested in spending a long time in either Lyon or Marseille, instead we'd prefer to spend time in smaller, quieter places, probably medieval.

We won't have a car, so trains preferable, buses if not too long a journey time.

Does anybody have suggestions for a few places connected together by train (preferably local train to avail the otherwise often large ticket price) or bus, or bus in order get from Lyon to Marseille?

TIA

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We took the train from Lyon and stayed a few days in Arles, but focused more on the Roman sites. In medieval times, people moved into the arena and subdivided it into apartments and added on towers.

Avignon was along the way on our train and could be an easy day trip from Arles (or the other way around).