Avignon

Avignon

Located at the confluence of the Rhone and Durance rivers, Avignon is well known for its ramparts, its famous Pont Saint-Bénezet and the Palais des Papes. Occupied since the prehistory, Avignon was always, a home of culture and a crossroad of civilizations. Each period of its history, that during the most important of them Avignon was the capital of the Christian Europe, still deeply marking its architecture.

Day 1

Le Pont St. Benezet 聖班納薩橋

With archeological and textual studies, including legends, experts have reconstructed the historical presence of a bridge at this site. It was famous from its earliest days. The four arches and the chapel that exist today are vestiges of the long history of vicissitudes of a bridge with twenty-two arches, measuring more than 900 meters. It seems that a bridge was constructed here during the Roman period.

Le Palais Des Papes 教皇皇宮

The biggest and most beautiful house ine the world". The Palace of the Popes, residence of the Sovereign Pontiffs during the 14th century, is the biggest Gothic palace ine the world. The visit shows 25 rooms : courtyard, cloister, reception halls, chapels and private papal apartements. Ranked by UNESCO as Heritage for Humanity

Day 2

Arausio, The Roman Theater at Orange

Sometime around the birth of Jesus, the Romans built a 7,000-seat theater at Arausio in southern France, a former capital of the now vanquished Celts. It was a conventional design, with its steeply tiered rows of benches forming a semicircle around the proscenium. It was also big. The stage, varying in depth from 40 to 50 feet, ran 210 feet along the base of the theater’s great 120-foot-high, 340-foot-wide stage wall. The castle-like wall, with its entranceways and exits, featured the obligatory statue of Caesar in an arched niche above stage center.