Avignon is locate in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
From Paris is 3h by train.
The theater
The historic centre, which includes the Palais des Papes, the cathedral and the Pont d’Avignon, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.
The 17th-century chapel of the Jesuit College.
In the chapel housed now the Lapidary Museum.
Several civilizations are represented: Greece and Magna Graecia (southern Italy), Rome, Roman and Paleo-Christian Gaul, and a selection of Egyptian antiquities.
The Calvet Museum s the main museum and it is free.
The collection of the Calvet Museum.
The garden of the Calvet Museum.
The collection of the Calvet Museum.
The collection of the Calvet Museum.
The collection of the Calvet Museum.
Remparts
Church of Saint-Pierre.
Seventeenth-century gilded wooden choir.
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