Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Avignon, France

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)

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

Wikipedia: Chapelle du Verbe Incarné (Avignon) (FR)

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 a former Gothic collegiate church built in the middle of the fourteenth century, classified as a historical monument on July 27, 1983.

Wikipedia: Collégiale Saint-Didier d'Avignon (FR)

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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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 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 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.

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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 religious building built in the seventh century by Saint Agricol. Elevated to the rank of collegiate church by John XXII in 1321, it is located in the historic center of Avignon (Vaucluse).

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

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The Vaucluse Academy, founded in 1801, is the oldest association in Vaucluse. This learned society is a continuation of the Academy of Emulators of 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 activity of its members, its periodicals, its exhibitions and conferences on the history and archaeology of the 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, with in particular the publications of learned societies in connection with the Academy of Vaucluse.

Wikipedia: Académie de Vaucluse (FR)

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.

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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. In 1988, it was designated as a monument historique.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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 Midi, goldsmith's work, tapestries and paintings.

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