Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Avignon, France

Jean-Baptiste Joannis Althen, better simply known as Jean Althen, was an Armenian agronomist from Safavid Iran who developed the cultivation of madder in France.

Wikipedia: Jean Althen (EN)

Hippolyte Paul Vayson (4 December 1841 – 13 December 1911) was a French painter and engraver.

Wikipedia: Paul Vayson (FR)

The Rocher des Doms is a rocky spur located on the left bank of the Rhône, in the Avignon Centre district of the city of Avignon.

Wikipedia: Rocher des Doms (FR)

The Capetian Millennium is an event organized in 1987 in France to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of the accession of Hugues Capet. It was by decree of the President of the Republic, François Mitterrand, and under his high patronage that the Committee for the Celebration of the Millennium of the Accession of Hugues Capet was set up. Its presidency is ensured by the Director General of the Archives de France, Jean Favier.

Wikipedia: Millénaire capétien (FR)

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.

Wikipedia: Avignon Cathedral (EN)

The Chapel of the Black Penitents is located in Avignon (Vaucluse) in the rue de la Banasterie. It was home to one of the major brotherhoods of the papal city. The "Grey Penitents" were the first of a long series of Avignon penitents. Then there are the "Black Penitents", which were founded in 1488 by a group of Florentine nobles, the "White Penitents", a brotherhood founded in 1527 by thirteen Avignon residents, the "Blue Penitents", formed in 1557 by a dissident from the other brotherhoods. Then, at the end of the sixteenth century, the "Black Penitents of Mercy" were born. The movement continued with the founding of the "Purple Penitents" (1622), then the "Red Penitents" (1700). The Revolution put an end to this proliferation and only the "Grey Penitents" and the "Black Penitents" remain in Avignon today.

Wikipedia: Chapelle des Pénitents noirs (Avignon) (FR), Website

The 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. The building, built in the early 14th century as the residence of the bishops of Avignon, was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the historic center of Avignon in 1995.

Wikipedia: Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon (EN), Website

The Saint-Bénézet chapel of the Saint-Bénézet bridge is located in Avignon (Vaucluse), on the third pillar, above the Rhône, under the Saint-Nicolas chapel.

Wikipedia: Chapelle Saint-Bénézet (FR)

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.

Wikipedia: Musée Louis Vouland (FR), Website