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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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In extremis, avant la fête, je poste enfin mes premières photos. Bon on commence par la - presque - fin. Avignon la semaine dernière, au coucher du soleil - enfin là le soleil était derrière un nuage:). Avignon donc, sa vielle ville et son palais, dont l'écrasante majesté m'impressionne à chaque fois. Ils savaient comment montrer qui était le patron, à l'époque!
Il ponte di Saint-Bénezet, secondo la leggenda, fu edificato da un giovane pastore di nome Bénezet per ordine divino.
Dapprima il progetto non venne nemmeno considerato dal re cui il pastore aveva chiesto di poterlo costruire, ma infine il re propose di accettare la richiesta di Bénezet a patto che egli riuscisse a spostare un gigantesco masso. L'impresa ebbe buon frutto e il ponte fu edificato.
Completato nel 1185 e più volte ricostruito, ne restano oggi solo quattro arcate e una cappella per via di varie inondazioni. Dal ponte di Avignone prende il nome la tradizionale canzone per bambini Sur le pont d'Avignon. (fonte: Wikipedia)
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'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 :(
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."
That is more than you cared to know.