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Ceccano cardinal palace in
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Ceccano cardinal palace is a splendid example of the medieval palaces
erected by cardinals in Avignon when the Church high dignitaries realised
they had to settled there for a long time. |
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Cardinal d'Arrabloy begins the construction of the building designed
like a great fortified house. The Cardinal Annibal Ceccano lives here
from 1333 to 1350 and gives its name "Livrée Ceccano".
The Livrée Ceccano houses a jesuitic school from 1564, soldiers
during the french Revolution, and a high school after 1810. The public
library has been transfered there in 1982. |
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the ages, the different ocupants of the palace were careful enough
to transmit us in a good state of conservation. In the first floor,
in the public library room, the paintings on the walls and the ceilings
are exceptionnally preserved. The painting was spread directly on
the stone walls, without facing. |
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library collections come from the gathering and confiscation, during
the Revolution, of the books and manuscripts previously kept in churches
and monasteries in Avignon. It was open to the public in 1809. The
Library was then enriched by donations and purchases. |
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the traditional library is a part of a modern media library. Public
reading and meetings are regularly organized with renown writers.
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