Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Avignon, France
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1.8 km
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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: Pierre Boulle
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 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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 5: Musée Angladon
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 6: 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 7: Temple Saint-Martial
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.
Sight 8: Saint-Bénézet
Get Ticket*Bénézet is a saint of the Catholic Church.
Sight 9: Esprit Requien
Esprit Requien was a French naturalist, who made contributions in the fields of conchology, paleontology and especially botany.
Sight 10: Chapelle Saint-Louis
The Jesuit novitiate is a building built in Avignon in the Comtat Venaissin at the end of the sixteenth century, to serve as a house of religious formation for the 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 organization of cultural or tourist activities. Since 1950, the buildings and the cloister have been listed as Historic Monuments.
Wikipedia: Noviciat des Jésuites d'Avignon (FR), Url Festival, Url Mass
Sight 11: Collection Lambert
The Dictionary of the Streets of Avignon 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.
Sight 12: Hôtel de Villeneuve-Martignan
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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