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Kawazaki KV107-II-2 msn4003 de 1963
Heliswiss International AG (09/06/2023-...)
aéroport Avignon Provence
23/08/2024
Location Sécurité Civile saison FF 2024
4003, N185CH.
UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Palais des Papes in Avignon, France is one of the largest and most important medieval Gothic buildings in Europe. It is one of many places called the Palace of the Popes.
Avignon became the residence of the Popes in 1309, when the Gascon Bertrand de Goth, as Pope Clement V, unwilling to face the violent chaos of Rome after his election (1305), moved the Papal Curia to Avignon, a period known as the Avignon Papacy. Clement lived as a guest in the Dominican monastery at Avignon, and his successor Pope John XXII set up a magnificent establishment there, but the reconstruction of the old bishops' palace was begun in earnest by Pope Benedict XII (1334-42) and continued by his successors to 1364. wiki
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July 22, 2007 - Trip to Avignon with Katie and William. We saw a play (Le Facteur de Neruda), had a picnic in the park, and rode the ferris wheel!
22 juillet 2007 - Journée en Avignon avec Katie et William. Nous avons vu une pièce de théâtre, picniqué dans le jardin, et fait un tour dans la grande roue.
Technologie REDSCALE avec Rollei REDBIRD 400, développé avec le Rollei Digibase C-41 en cuve manuelle.
Surviving section of this famous bridge, in the distance is Mont Ventoux of Tour de France fame, sadly where English professional cyclist Tommy Simpson died on the 13th July 1967.
Avignon, France, January 2007. Quite intoxicated, I placed the point-and-shoot on a fire hydrant and (miraculously) came away with a decent shot.
Avignon Horse
The Place du Palais is the main square in Avignon, France and is just in front of the Popes' Palace, where the Popes resided from 1309 until 1376 instead of Rome. (The Avignon Papacy was the period from 1309 to 1376 during which seven successive popes resided in Avignon (then in the Kingdom of Arles, part of the Holy Roman Empire, now in France) rather than in Rome. The situation arose from the conflict between the papacy and the French crown.
Following the strife between Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII and the death of his successor Pope Benedict XI after only eight months in office, a deadlocked conclave finally elected Clement V, a Frenchman, as Pope in 1305. Clement declined to move to Rome, remaining in France, and in 1309, he moved his court to the papal enclave at Avignon, where it remained for the next 67 years. The absence from Rome is sometimes referred to as the "Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy".)
At any rate, this horse was spotted in front of the Hotel des Monnaies which was completed in 1619 and served as a hotel, but more recently been occupied by the Olivier Messiaen music conservatoire. Messiaen was one of the most influential French composers of the modern era, whose best-known and most frequently played work is a chamber piece, the "Quartet for the End of Time."
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