Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Avignon, France
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Experience Avignon in France in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in AvignonIndividual Sights in AvignonSight 1: Église Saint-Symphorien-les-Carmes
The church of Saint-Symphorien-les-Carmes is a church that was successively conventual, then parish, and located in Avignon on the Place des Carmes.
Wikipedia: Église Saint-Symphorien-les-Carmes (Avignon) (FR)
Sight 2: Tour des Augustins
The Augustinian Tower 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.
Sight 3: Hôtel de la Bastide
The Hotel Gasqui is a building in Avignon, in the Vaucluse department.
Sight 4: Théâtre du Chêne Noir
The Théâtre du Chêne Noir is a theatre in Avignon, located in the former chapel of the Abbey of Sainte-Catherine d'Avignon (a historic monument listed 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 Festival Off.
Sight 5: Basilique Saint-Pierre
The Basilica of Saint-Pierre d'Avignon is a Gothic-style Catholic basilica located in Avignon on the Place Saint-Pierre. Built on the site of a first construction of the seventh century, its current reconstruction dates from 1358.
Sight 6: Synagogue
The Avignon synagogue is a Jewish place of worship in the heart of the former Avignon quarry.
Sight 7: Théâtre des Halles
The Théâtre des Halles is a French theatrical structure located in Avignon, in the Vaucluse. It was created in 1983 under the impetus of the director Alain Timár. A permanent stage and venue for the Avignon Off Festival, 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.
Sight 8: Chapelle du Verbe Incarné
The Chapel of the Incarnate Word is a modest-sized former religious building, located at 21 rue des Lices, in the historic center 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.
Sight 9: Pierre Boulle
![Pierre Boulle](/static/images/wikipedia/France_Avignon_Pierre-Boulle.jpg)
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.
Sight 10: Collégiale Saint-Didier
The collegiate church of Saint-Didier d'Avignon is a former Gothic collegiate church built in the middle of the fourteenth century, classified as a historical monument on July 27, 1983.
Sight 11: Musée Angladon
![Musée Angladon](/static/images/wikipedia/France_Avignon_Musée-Angladon.jpg)
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.
Sight 12: Musée Lapidaire
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.
Sight 13: Hôtel de Villeneuve-Martignan
![Hôtel de Villeneuve-Martignan](/static/images/wikipedia/France_Avignon_Hôtel-de-Villeneuve-Martignan.jpg)
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.
Sight 14: Hôtel de l'Espine
The Hôtel de l'Espine is a former private mansion in Avignon, built on the site of a convent founded by the Dominican nuns of Sainte Praxède in Avignon from the fifteenth century, and of which only rare remains remain. It now houses the Chamber of Trades and Crafts of Vaucluse.
Sight 15: Chapelle de l'Oratoire
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.
Sight 16: Église Saint-Agricol
The Collegiate Church of Saint-Agricol in Avignon is a former collegiate church built in the seventh century by Saint Agricol.
Sight 17: Palais du Roure
The Palais du Roure is a listed hôtel particulier in Avignon, France.
Sight 18: Maison Jean Vilar
The Maison Jean Vilar, inaugurated on 18 July 1979, is an archive dedicated to the work and thought of Jean Vilar which offers shows, readings, meetings and exhibitions. It also carries the history of the Festival d'Avignon 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, brought together by a quadripartite agreement signed for 30 years on December 12, 1977. The last agreement expired in 2017.
Sight 19: Opéra Grand Avignon
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.
Sight 20: Maisons et tour de Mirault
The houses and tower of Mirault, located at 11-13-13bis place du Palais in Avignon, in the Vaucluse department.
Sight 21: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-des-Doms
![Cathédrale Notre-Dame-des-Doms](/static/images/wikipedia/France_Avignon_Cathédrale-Notre-Dame-des-Doms.jpg)
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.
Sight 22: Statue du Millénaire capétien
![Statue du Millénaire capétien](/static/images/wikipedia/France_Avignon_Statue-du-Millénaire-capétien.png)
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. It is chaired by the Director General of the Archives of France, Jean Favier.
Sight 23: Rocher des Doms
The Rocher des Doms is a rocky outcrop located on the left bank of the Rhône, in the Avignon Centre district of the city of Avignon.
Sight 24: Paul Vayson
Sight 25: Paul Saïn
Sight 26: Jean Althen
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.
Sight 27: Chapelle des Pénitents Noirs
![Chapelle des Pénitents Noirs](/static/images/wikipedia/France_Avignon_Chapelle-des-Pénitents-Noirs.jpg)
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 came the "Black Penitents", which were founded in 1488 by a group of Florentine nobles, the "White Penitents", a brotherhood founded in 1527 by thirteen Avignonnais, the "Blue Penitents", formed in 1557 by a dissidence from the other brotherhoods. Then, at the end of the sixteenth century, the "Black Penitents of Mercy" were born. The movement continued with the foundation of the "Purple Penitents" (1622), then the "Red Penitents" (1700). The Revolution put an end to this proliferation and today only the "Grey Penitents" and the "Black Penitents" remain in Avignon.
Wikipedia: Chapelle des Pénitents noirs (Avignon) (FR), Website
Sight 28: Musée du Petit Palais
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 "primitives" and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, which reunites those of the collection of Giampietro Campana deposed by the Musée du Louvre as well as paintings of the Avignon school deposed by the Musée Calvet. 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.
Sight 29: Chapelle Saint-Bénézet
The Saint-Bénézet chapel on the Saint-Bénézet bridge is located in Avignon (Vaucluse), on the third pillar, above the Rhône, under the Saint-Nicolas chapel.
Sight 30: Musée Louis Vouland
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 Midi, goldsmith's work, tapestries and paintings.
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