Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Avignon, France

The Louis-Vouland Museum in Avignon (Vaucluse) presents, in a private mansion in Villeneuve-Esclapon, a rich collection of decorative arts representative of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with Parisian furniture, earthenware from the South, goldsmithing, tapestries and paintings.

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The Hôtel de l'Espine is a former Avignon mansion, built on the site of a convent founded by the Dominican Sisters of Sainte Praxède in Avignon from the fifteenth century, and of which only a few remains remain. It is now home to the Chamber of Trades and Crafts of Vaucluse.

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The chapel of the Oratory of Avignon is located in the rue Joseph-Vernet. This eighteenth-century building was begun in 1713, rebuilt in 1730 and finally completed in 1749. It has been classified as a historical monument since 1912. It takes its name from a congregation, the Society of the Oratory of Jesus.

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The Collegiate Church of Saint-Agricol in Avignon is a former collegiate church built in the 7th century by Saint Agricol.

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The Palais du Roure is a listed hôtel particulier in Avignon, France.

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The Maison Jean Vilar, inaugurated on 18 July 1979, is an archive dedicated to the work and thought of Jean Vilar that offers shows, readings, meetings and exhibitions. It also carries the history of the Festival d'Avignon up to the present day, that of the "OFF" and of various cultural structures in the Region. The dynamics of this place were initially based on the alliance of four entities: the Jean Vilar Association, the City of Avignon, the National Library of France and the Ministry of Culture and Communication united by a quadripartite agreement signed for 30 years on December 12, 1977. The last agreement expired in 2017.

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The Opéra d'Avignon is an opera house located in Avignon, France that has been in operation for almost two centuries. The initial opera house was constructed in 1824–1825, and opened with its inaugural performance on 30 October 1825. The original opera house was destroyed in a fire on 26 January 1846. The current opera house was built in 1846–1847 and was designed by architects Léon Feuchère and Théodore Charpentier.

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The houses and tower of Mirault, located at 11-13-13bis place du Palais in Avignon, in the Vaucluse department.

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Avignon Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located next to the Palais des Papes in Avignon, France. The cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Avignon.

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The Théâtre du Chêne Noir is a theatre in Avignon, France, located in the former chapel of the Abbey of Sainte-Catherine d'Avignon (a listed historical monument since 1974), located on Rue Sainte-Catherine, behind the Palais des Papes. Gérard Gelas' company moved there in 1971. Together with André Benedetto, he was a pioneer of the Off Festival.

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The Hotel Gasqui, is a building in Avignon, in the Vaucluse department.

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The church of Saint-Symphorien-les-Carmes is a church that was successively conventual, then parochial, and located in Avignon on the Place des Carmes.

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The Tour des Augustins is located in the commune of Geaune, in the French department of Landes. It is classified as a historical monument by decree of 9 July 1909.

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The Synagogue of Avignon is a place of Jewish worship in the heart of the former quarry of Avignon.

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St. Peter's Basilica is a Gothic-style Roman Catholic basilica located in Avignon on St. Peter's Square. Built on the site of a first construction in the 7th century, its current reconstruction dates back to 1358.

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The Académie de Vaucluse, founded in 1801, is the oldest association in Vaucluse. This learned society is a continuation of the Académie des Émulateurs d'Avignon founded in 1658, it was recognized as a public utility in 1919. The Académie de Vaucluse, which is generalist, gives priority to local history in all its aspects. It plays an important cultural role through the activities of its members, its periodicals, its exhibitions and conferences on the history and archaeology of Vaucluse. In addition to its publishing activities, it is the custodian of documentation collections consisting of local works and regional scholarly journals, biographies, reprints, and monographs of towns and villages. Beautiful library, including the publications of learned societies in connection with the Academy of Vaucluse.

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The collegiate church of Saint-Didier d'Avignon is an old Gothic collegiate church built in the middle of the 14th century, classified as historic monuments on July 27, 1983.

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The Calvet Museum is the main museum in Avignon. Since the 1980s the collection has been split between two buildings, with the fine arts housed in an 18th-century hôtel particulier and a separate Lapidary Museum in the former chapel of the city's Jesuit college on rue de la République. It is one of the museums run by the Fondation Calvet.

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