Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Avignon, France

The Maison du Quatre de Chiffre or Maison du IV de Chiffre is one of the oldest residences in Avignon, located at the corner of Rue des Teinturiers and Rue Guillaume Puy. This Gothic house, built in 1493, had an "IV of Figures" carved between the three windows on the first floor. These acronyms, which have now disappeared during a restoration, were found in no. 53 of "La Farandole", an Avignon magazine published on 21 October 1913.

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The Chapel of the Incarnate Word is a modestly sized former religious building located at 21 rue des Lices, in the historic centre of the commune of Avignon, capital of the French department of Vaucluse. Since 1998, the chapel has been used as a performance hall during the Festival d'Avignon.

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The Théâtre des Halles is a French theatre based in Avignon, Vaucluse. It was created in 1983 under the impetus of the director Alain Timár. A permanent stage and venue for the Festival off d'Avignon, the Théâtre des Halles is located within the city walls, near the Place Pie and the Halles d'Avignon, the Provençal market from which it takes its name.

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Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle was a French author. He is best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.

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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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The Avignon Street Dictionary is a dictionary of the streets of the commune of Avignon, a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

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The Jesuit novitiate is a building built in Avignon in the Comtat Venaissin at the end of the 16th century, to serve as a house of religious formation for novices of the Society of Jesus. When the Jesuits were expelled from France (1768) the building passed into other hands and became the property of the city of Avignon in 1852. In 1987, the premises were rehabilitated to allow the opening of a hotel and the organisation of cultural and tourist activities. Since 1950, the buildings and the cloister have been listed as Historic Monuments.

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Esprit Requien was a French naturalist, who made contributions in the fields of conchology, paleontology and especially botany.

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The Temple Saint-Martial d'Avignon is a Protestant place of worship located at the corner of Rue des Lices and Rue de la République in Avignon. The parish is a member of the United Protestant Church of France.

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The Lapidary Museum is a lapidarium-museum in Avignon, France. It has housed the classical Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Gallo-Roman sculptures and objects of the Calvet Museum since the 1980s. They are both run by the Fondation Calvet. As well as exhibiting the museum's core collections, it also mounts summer temporary exhibitions, conferences and networking events, particularly for scholars.

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The Angladon Museum - Jacques Doucet is a museum at 5 rue Laboureur in Avignon. It is based in the hôtel de Massilian, a former hôtel particulier built in the 18th century. The museum was established in 1996 according to the wishes of Jean and Paulette Angladon-Dubrujeaud, heirs to the widow of the Parisian couturier Jacques Doucet (1853-1929). Its collections includes artworks from the 18th to 20th century.

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Bénézet was a saint of the Catholic Church.

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