St. Benezet Bridge (Pont d'Avignon)

Rhone River, Avignon , Provence, France

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  • The original bridge of the song

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    k0k0m0 2 contributions Argentina Oct 5, 1998

    This is the original bridge which the typical rhyme refers to. Not much to see though, so just merits a snapshot and that's all

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    Avignon, Provence

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    We arrived in Avignon after the longest journey we'd had. I had read a whole book that day (I don't do reading). We got to the hostel which seemed to be full of kids on a school trip or something. We then went to find some food. Our hostel wasn't in the main town so it wasn't very busy but we found a little takeaway pizza place! We had a large …

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    Exploring Avignon!!

    Never knew how much I hated cold weather until I experienced the harsh winds that ripped through the narrow streets in the Medieval city (intramuros). Oh la la, I rued the day I began wishing for cold weather in Florida with a nice breeze. Never again.

    Had a great time walking around and discovering cool places to eat, buy fruit/late night …

  • 3

    En la ciudad de los Papas: Avignon

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    A mediodía salió el TGV con dirección sur que me dejaría en apenas 3 horas en la ciudad de Avignon, a orillas del río Ródano.


    Al abordar el tren tenía un ploteo en las puertas conmemorativo a la Copa del Mundo de fútbol y era de color azul. Lentamente la SNCF fue quitando el color naranja original por esta combinación gris y azul, …

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    Avignon : Bonjour, Bonsoir, Bonjour!

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    ... out to dinner, we took a stroll around the city seeing some of the sights including the Palace of the Popes and the St. Benezet Bridge (which some of you might know from the popular children's nursery rhyme, Sur le pont d’Avignon, although we did ...

  • 2

    Pope's Palace and Pont d'Avignon

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    ... like phones) and we could press a button for each new room and get an English explanation.    The St. Benezet Bridge , also known as Pont d'Avignon, was the subject of the famous nursery rhyme ("Sur Le Pont, D'Avignon, on y dancer, on y ...

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    Popes, a Bridge, a Nursery Rhyme

    ... views overlooking the Rhone River Valley, then a tour of the Palace of the Popes, and finally a walk out onto St. Benezet Bridge. It was an entertaining day filled with many tourists and enjoyable people watching. We finished off our evening with a ...

  • 4

    Provençal Wine Tour

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    ... Audra and I finally woke up we packed our backpacks for the twentieth time and sadly said goodbye to Barcelona and hello to Avignon, France. Thursday was our transition day back into French – it’s definitely going to be a rough one. I miss ...

  • 5

    Avignon, Provence

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    ... the top of the hill. We then went down through some lovely alley ways with lots of shops and made our way towards St Benezet Bridge. The bridge had suffered major floods and because of this had been split in half! The bridge was expensive to walk on so ...

  • 6

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    Stayed in the caravan park on the river just next to the town. Didn't go into Avignon but took some photos of St Benezet bridge and saw some of the stone ramparts still standing from the fortified ...

  • 7

    Avignon and Provence

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    ... le pont d'Avignon, on y danse, on y danse..." as we walked along the river Rhone, viewing the old Roman Pont St. Benezet (bridge) that inspired the song. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we rented a tiny, red Fiat and drove through the surrounding hill towns ...

  • 8

    Chilling in Avignon

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    ... it would all be in French). Oh and there is a famous song which I was also unaware of about dancing on the St Benezet Bridge... yeah I didn´t know about that either! (But I did later find out that people actually danced under the bridge, not actually ...