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Users Assigned: KazmiAvignon is a city in Southeastern France in the region known as Provence. Avignon is most famous for the Palace de la Papes, or Papal Palace where several Popes and Antipopes lived in the 13 and 1400s. The exterior of the Palace of the Popes has the appearance of a true fortress with very high walls which are opened here and there by very narrow windows. The half bridge of Avignon or the "Pont St. Benezet" is also somewhat famous for a common children's song "Sur la Pont, d'Avignon". The building of the bridge began in 1177 and was completed in January 1185. It fell in 1226 and was almost completely destroyed, was reconstructed in part until it was definitely abandoned in 1680.
All that remains today of the bridge are four arches with a small chapel on the second pier, made up of a Romanesque chapel surmounted by a Gothic chapel flanked by a 16th century apse. The body of Benezet was buried here and in 1674, was translated to the church of the Celestines but disappeared during the stormy years of the French Revolution
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Palais des Papes0.23 Km from AvignonThe Palais des Papes (English: Papal palace, lo Palais dei Papas in Occitan) is a historical palace in Avignon, southern France, one of the largest and most important medieval Gothic buildings in Europe. One time fortress and palace, the papal residence was the seat of Western Christianity during the 14th century. Six papal conclaves were held in the Palais, leading to the elections of Benedict XII in 1334, Clement VI in 1342, Innocent VI in 1352, Urban V in 1362, Gregory XI in 1370 and Antipope...
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Fondation Calvet0.32 Km from AvignonLa Fondation Calvet is an art foundation in Avignon, France, named for Esprit Calvet, who left his collections and library to it in 1810. The foundation maintains several museums and a two libraries, with support from the town. The original legacies of paintings, archaeological items, coins and medals, and medieval sculpture have been added to by many other legacies, and a significant deposit of works of art from the Louvre. The archaeological collections and medieval sculpture are now housed se...
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Musée Requien0.33 Km from AvignonMusée Requien or Museum Requien is a natural history museum in Avignon, France. Some of Jean Henri Fabre's work is displayed here.
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Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon0.38 Km from AvignonThe Musée du Petit Palais is a museum and art gallery in Avignon, southern France. It opened in 1976 and has an exceptional collection of Renaissance paintings of the Avignon school as well as from Italy, which reunites many "primitives" from the collection of Giampietro Campana. It is housed in a 14th-century building at the north side of the square overlooked by the Palais des Papes.
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Avignon Cathedral0.65 Km from AvignonTrue
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Château de Beaucastel17.68 Km from AvignonTrue
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Abbey of Saint-Roman20.07 Km from AvignonThe Abbey of Saint-Roman (Abbaye de Saint-Roman), is a cave monastery located in the communes of Beaucaire and Comps, in the Gard département of France. The site, which includes the ruins of a castle, the château de Saint-Roman-d'Aiguille, has been protected by the French Ministry of Culture as a monument historique since 1990 and includes a chapel, cloisters, terrace, tombs and walls. It was constructed in the 9th, 10th, 12th and 15th centuries. The abbey is reached by a signposted path from Be...
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Château de Beaucaire20.14 Km from AvignonThe Château de Beaucaire is a ruined castle in the commune of Beaucaire in the Gard département of France. The existing structures date from the 12th and 16th centuries, with other elements from various times in the Middle Ages. First built in the 11C, it was torn down on Richelieu's orders. It used to be protected by a wall, the trace of which can still be followed. It includes a strange polygonal tower perched on a rocky spur, the façades dominating the sheer drop, and a fine round corner towe...
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Carpentras Cathedral22.61 Km from AvignonTrue
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Rencontres d'Arles33.40 Km from AvignonTrue
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| Month | Temp °C | Rainfall Cm | Temp °F | Rainfall Inches |
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| Jan | 5.1 | 40.8 | 41.2 | 16.1 |
| Feb | 6.4 | 43.1 | 43.5 | 17 |
| Mar | 9.3 | 59.1 | 48.7 | 23.3 |
| Apr | 12.9 | 59.1 | 55.2 | 23.3 |
| May | 16.7 | 65.4 | 62.1 | 25.7 |
| Jun | 20.4 | 44.4 | 68.7 | 17.5 |
| Jul | 23 | 29.9 | 73.4 | 11.8 |
| Aug | 22.3 | 51.2 | 72.1 | 20.2 |
| Sep | 18.9 | 75.3 | 66 | 29.6 |
| Oct | 13.9 | 99.7 | 57 | 39.3 |
| Nov | 9.1 | 83.5 | 48.4 | 32.9 |
| Dec | 5.8 | 61.6 | 42.4 | 24.3 |
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