After a first Overnight Stop in Valence we visited Avignon today. A beautiful old Town but quite hard to drive trough the narrow streets and find a parking place. Our next stop will be Montpellier andRead more
Awoke to blue skies and milder temperatures. Making the most of it with breakfast on a square surrounded by Christmas stalls and listening to Christmas music.
Found our way to the Popes Palace andRead more
Doug and Nancy started the day at the local market where there was a good selection of everything we needed plus. Nancy decided on a local cured sausage and a local olive and anchovy tapenade; theRead more
We left Paris this morning and travelled 580km by train, arriving in Avignon just under three hours later. The trains here are very fast, once they leave that is. They are always delayed and it seemsRead more
We had a big day trip with Lurleen and our family to Avignon on the bus. It is much bigger than Uzes and has a wall all around it. The palace of the popes is enormous and old. The pope bought theRead more
Well it was the centre for a bit, like two hundred years or so. Life for the Pope was a bit (politically) hot in Rome in the 1300s. So what's a Pope to do? Build a new city for yourself and fewRead more
One of the high points of our trip occurred today as we visited the Papal Palace at Avignon. As strange as it may seem, there was a time when there were as many as six different men, all claiming toRead more
In 1309 Pope Clement V moved to Avignon to escape the protests, riots, and violence after his election. The Palace was begun and added to by the 8 succeeding popes who lived there. It is the largestRead more
We took a tour, which included the use of a tablet to explain what it was like. The inside is mostly empty now, but using the tablet, we could see how it had looked. There had been beautiful frescoesRead more
You might also know this place by the following names:
Abbaye Sainte-Catherine d'Avignon
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