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Travel photography from Avignon, France - March 2012. Part of my month long trip touring southern Europe via railways in the spring of 2012.
For more about Avignon, check out the blog post from my travelogue: europae.tumblr.com/post/20016199749/avignon-damn-it-felt-...
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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Avignone è una città della Francia meridionale, capoluogo e centro più popoloso del dipartimento di Vaucluse.
Abitata sin dal III millennio a.c., mantenne però scarsa importanza fino al medioevo, quando fu per parecchi secoli l'unico punto di collegamento alla Francia settentrionale grazie al suo celebre ponte sul Rodano, che le portò una notevole ricchezza grazie ai pedaggi imposti per il suo attraversamento.
Fu sede papale dal 1309 al 1423.
Technologie REDSCALE avec Rollei REDBIRD 400, développé avec le Rollei Digibase C-41 en cuve manuelle.
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's station for the TGV is a lovely concrete armadillo of a building. Here it looks a bit stained as it was raining quite heavily. So heavily in fact that my train was delayed by an hour :(
Palais des Papes: The iconic momument of Avignon, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, no longer present much of the opulence that prevailed during the papal period in the 14th and 15th century. There are a few rooms that have kept their frescoes (of which you can’t take pictures) but the rest are simply empty rooms where you can admire the architecture and the craftsmen expertise of the time but nothing more.
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