Avignon, discovery guide

a tour in Avignon

the Pope Palace square

Pope Palace square - Pope Palace - Petit palais - the Mint - Horloge square - the City Hall - the theatre - the rocher des Doms - Saint Bénézet bridge - the city walls - the Ceccano palace - Saint Didier church - the roi René street - the teinturiers street - Saint Pierre church - Notre Dame des doms cathedral - l'hôtel de Vervins - Banasterie street - Barthelasse island - Windows opened on Avignon Festival - Avignon's Green Wall

he Pope Palace square is a large esplanade of 240 metres length, and 48 metres broadth. It is overlooked by the impressive façace of the Pope Palace, facing the baroque sculptures of the Avignon's Mint .A gilded Virgin on the Notre-Dame-des-Doms cathedral keep watching the place, whereas at the end of the perspective, the Petit Palais displays its graceful crenellated façade of Renaissance style.

place du Palais des papes en Avignon © VF

he square was created at the end of Middle-Ages, the buildings standing there were razed for military reasons when the antipape Benedict the 13th was besieged in the Palace. Later, the Pope's legates built the "chatelet", a defensive construction to protect the entrance of the Palace.

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