Avignon

The City

Avignon, city of the popes and of the famous ‘Pont d’Avignon’, has a lot more to offer than simply a one hundred and fifty year old nursery rhyme and a fondness towards the bigwigs of the ancient Catholic Church. With three hundred days of sunshine a year, this small provincial city of around 90,000 people offers culture, entertainment, history and outstanding beauty all under the bright light of the Mediterranean sun.

Avignon has been an important city since the 12th century, as the Pont Bénezet was an indispensable route for tradesmen crossing the Rhone River. But it was thanks to over a century of papal residency, during the schism between the Easter and Western Catholic church in the 14th century, that Avignon transformed into the g......