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Avignon Slideshow
Top Hotels in Avignon
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Citea Avignon
71 reviews -
Express By Holiday Inn Avignon
49 reviews -
Grand Hotel Avignon
213 reviews -
Mercure Sud Avignon
94 reviews
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Mercure Avignon Cite Papes 3m
102 reviews
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Bristol Avignon
139 reviews
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Novotel - Avignon (Sud)
10 reviews
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Villa Colmas Avignon
10 reviews
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Mercure Pont D Avignon
81 reviews
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Ibis Avignon Centre Gare Hotel
186 reviews
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Hotel D Europe Avignon
170 reviews -
Ibis Avignon Centre Pont Europ
73 reviews
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Hotel Cloitre Saint Louis Avignon
281 reviews
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Acotel Express Avignon
21 reviews -
Frantour l'Horloge Avignon
297 reviews
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Ibis - Avignon Sud Hotel (Montfavet)
75 reviews
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Bonsai Hotel Avignon
42 reviews
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Hotel Du Lavarin Avignon
88 reviews
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ETAP Hotel Avignon
130 reviews
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Vert Hotel Avignon
35 reviews
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Atel Le Magnan Avignon
32 reviews
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Clarine Avignon
52 reviews
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Hotel Garlande Avignon
48 reviews
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Hotel Du Golf Grand Avignon
46 reviews
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Inter-Hotel Du Parc - Entraigues Avignon
9 reviews
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De Blauvac Avignon
87 reviews
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Auberge Bagatelle Avignon
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Danieli Avignon
135 reviews
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Oasis Playa Avignon
297 reviews
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Formule 1 Avignon Centre Courtine Gare
11 reviews
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Le Magnan Avignon
32 reviews
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Central Avignon
45 reviews
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Hotel Regina Avignon
88 reviews
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Hotel Saint George Avignon
15 reviews
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Hotel Alizea Avignon
61 reviews
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De L'Atelier Avignon
93 reviews
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La Mirande Avignon
77 reviews
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Novotel Nord Avignon
96 reviews
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Court'Inn Suites Avignon
64 reviews
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Kyriad La Cristole Avignon
19 reviews
Avignon
Travel Blogs from Avignon, France
Saint Benezet Patron Saint of Architects!
This is a top pick! Saw two UNESCO Heritage sites here: the Saint-Benezet Bridge and the Palais de Popes. Learned that architects have a Patron Saint-Benezet. Good to know, we really need it at times! Our cute hotel was located right outside the ...
France rocks!
This is a top pick! ... in our round-the-world itinerary. We were not disappointed! Saint Victor la Coste is located approximately 15 miles north of Avignon in the Rhone valley. We slept in a room of a three-story stone house constructed by volunteers in years past, worked ...
Two Euro lunch stop
This is a top pick! Our stop in Avignon was just long enough for a short stroll along the river bank to streach the legs and take a few photos of the half built bridge and the city wall. I'm not sure if this little town needs much more time than ...
Avignon
This is a top pick! ... shortly after being newly chosen as leader of the Christian world. We also got to see the Pont St. Benezet (Le Pont D'Avignon... Or Benedict's Bridge). You may be familiar with the french nursery rhyme "sur Le Pont d'Avignon". It goes... Sur Le ...
Groovy little town of the medieval Popes
This is a top pick! ... that had taken Jerusalem and had then rushed across the Middle East and Turkey in the centuries leading up to the 1,500 AD. Avignon became this powerful because the papal throne actually moved here, from a politically turbulent Rome, for most of the ...
More Roman French style
This is a top pick! ... , so when the opportunity for cheap tickets arrived, and as it was Lucy's birthday, we decided to book them and have a look around Avignon as well. After we left the arrivals, we made our way over to the Hertz desk to pick up the car we had ordered. ...
France's Romananesque Heritage.
This is a top pick! ... just shy of 4,000 kilometers! Footnote: Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments, Papel Palace of Avignon, Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct) and Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the ¨Triumphal Arch¨ of Orange are all ...
Popes, Antipopes and Chateauneuf du Pope
... it is starting to take a lot to impress us - or we could have just been tired from all the driving and roundabouts. Avignon has a very interesting history, though, with its popes and antipopes (there’s a new word for us) ...
Avignon - France
We travelled all day and arrived at Avignon in the South of France in the afternoon. Avignon is a gorgeous city, surrounded by walls and with a palace and cathedral in the center. It was home to a number of popes over a 70year period, i cant quite ...
France
... de le Mer. YES!! I miss the beach at home and will probably be one of the first things I do when I get home. Avignon is a beautful city with many medieval buildings, tiny winding streets and the Palace de Papes where 9 popes lived. 5th July Today we ...
Football, drinks and basketball
... to pack up all my stuff. A few hours later I repeated the journey to the train station for myself and jumped on a train to Avignon where Brett (Nicki's partner) was waiting for me at the other end. Nicki and the boys all had training tonight so I hung out ...
Sur le pont d'Avignon to the banks of the Seine
This is a top pick! We visited Avignon before returning our Peugeot and returning ourselves to Paris. Nancy wanted to walk on the famous "Pont d'Avignon" or Pont St-Benezet, as it is actually called. But the 12€ fee dissuaded her (thus the picture "under" the bridge). ...
Sunday Drive in Provence
... would be able to see the lovely villages of Provence - as they were catching buses to various destinations. We then drove to Avignon which once was the papal seat of power - and we went through the massive medieval fortress and papal palace, the Palais ...
Didgeridoo - French style
... I sat opposite a women on the train who had a didgeridoo. Can you believe she didn't speak an ounce of English... I arrived in Avignon with little expectation today, but as is the way I was totally surprised as it was the last day of the Avignon Festival ...
Day 13 - Avignon
... 8211; Avignon We arrived at our dock in Avignon last night at sundown, just in time to see the ancient Bridge of Avignon and the beautiful skyline of the city. There was thunder and lightning early this morning to accompany the driving rain. Just ...
Sur le pont d'Avignon
After going back to Lyon I headed to Avignon. The town is your stereotypical French town, old buildings (unharmed by either war), intricate cathedrals, intimate parks and, of course, really fun ...
Athens to Provence
Hi all Welcome back We left the Islands on Wednesday and headed for Athens,- Nice ferry ride (it costs 1 Euro to upgrade to non- smoking airline type seats and believe me it is worth it as I have never seen as many smokers before!) At the port ...
Aix En Provence
... of the road,) the streets are so, so, tight, luckily haven't hit any park cars or motor bikes....YET!. Heading towards Avignon, co-pilot Soz finds and amazing little gem...Pont Du Gard. A three-tiered Roman aque- duck. 35 arches of its ...
Avignon, Le premier jour!
... ! We leave Paris on the TGV which can travel at around 300 km/h. So it only took us about 2 and a half hours to arrive in Avignon. Our accommodation in Avignon is really cool. We are staying right outside the Palais de Papes which is the largest gothic ...
Ce Giant de Provence!!
... time I was down in Provence it was 37deg. This is the land of lavender and aromatic soap. Very much warmer than the rest of France. Anyway the plot for today was to drive to MtVentoux and for me to climb the Giant of Provence from the Malaucene side. I ...
Roman for the day
... this aqueduct was amazing. The museum provided an informative overview of the area and the importance of water for Roman cities. Avignon is a beautiful city – the river, old papal palace and city walls make this place very endearing. We stayed at ...
Avignon : Bonjour, Bonsoir, Bonjour!
... 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 not). We also climbed to the top of Parc des Rochers des Doms for excellent views of the Rhone ...
Learn why the Popes Moved to Avignon
... ; Rather than face the violent chaos in Rome that followed his 1309 election as Pope, Clement V moved the papacy to Avignon. The puppet Pope supported Philip IV, the King of France, in his shady campaign to arrest hundreds of Knights ...
Pope's Old Digs
Today, Amelia and I headed off for Avignon, which is where the Pope's original vast fortress was located before the new lavish one in the Vatican could be built with money from all the poor people so the Pope and the other entitled whities could live it ...
Au Revoir, la France!
... , Monaco, Monte Carlos, and Marseilles. The train track ran right along the sea, and it was a great tour of Southern France. On Sunday, we explored Avignon, which is, like San Gimigano, a walled city built in the Middle Ages. It was also home to the ...