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Villeneuve-les-Avignon
The medieval town of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon sits on the banks of the Rhône opposite Avignon. It is dominated by the imposing Fort Saint-André, which stands on top of a hill and has well-preserved 14th century ramparts. The charterhouse of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon shelters peaceful cloisters and an artistic centre.
Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and the city of the Popes: only the Rhône separates them, but history indisputably links them.
Around the year 1000, the Abbey of St André was built by the Benedictines on Mount Andaon. The town of Saint André then became a fortress and military outpost, under the influence of King Philippe Le Bel - eager to control access to the Rhône between Avignon and the Gard - after its attachment to the French crown.
Fortress town where life was good in the 14th century; built on hills and largely wooded; the commune of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon is then considered as a suburb of Avignon. At that time, just like Avignon, it saw its economic growth surge. Cardinals and other prelates built vast villas to stay there or delivered them out of sight, ensuring their comfort and security.
It should be noted that the Saint Bénezet bridge, from the 13th century, connected to the Tour Philippe le Bel, has modified and facilitated travel, and particularly commercial relations - even if before and after its destruction the crossing of the Rhône was done above all by small boat.
However, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon was abandoned in the 15th century, following the departure of the papal court.
Congrès national des sapeurs-pompiers de France 1er au 4 octobre 2014 - Avignon - Vaucluse
Inauguration du village Sapeurs-pompiers - Avignon. Avec notamment : Eric Faure, président de la FNSPF et Stéphane Plaza, parrain de la prévention des accidents de la vie courante.
Photos : Lionnel Maitre
Musee Lapidaire, Avignon. The marble monument for a Julio-Claudian magistrate, adorned with a folding seat with, on the sides, axless bundles of chopsticks tied around a central staff and surmounted by three bay leaves.
As I was departing the Avignon TGV shuttle service train at Avignon Centre I noticed an intermodal train reversing through the station and managed to get a grab shot as it receded in the distance. I stayed at the Ibis Hotel at the station overlooking the tracks and there were frequent freight trains through the station with yards on both sides of the station. There was even a roundhouse not that far away, which for some reason I did not check out.
Avignon is a commune in southern France (Provence)
The city is well known for its Palais des Papes (Palace of the Popes), where the Popes lived for much of the 14th century.
The site of Avignon was settled very early on; the rocky outcrop (le Rocher les Doms) at the north end of the town, overlooking the Rhône River, may have been the site of a Celtic oppidum or hill fort.
Avignon, written as Avennio or Avenio in the ancient texts and inscriptions, takes its name from the Avennius clan. Founded by the Gallic tribe of the Cavares or Cavari, it became the centre of an important Phocaean colony from Massilia (present Marseilles).
Under the Romans, Avenio aflourishing city of Gallia Narbonensis, the first Transalpine province of the Roman Empire, but very little from this period remains (a few fragments of the forum near Rue Molière).