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The Avignon City Walls are a series of defensive stone walls that surround the city.
They were originally built in the 14th century during the Avignon papacy and have been continually rebuilt and repaired throughout their subsequent history.
The walls replaced an earlier double set of defensive walls that had been completed in the first two decades of the 13th century.
In 1309 Pope Clement V moved to Avignon and under the papacy the town expanded outside the limits of the earlier city walls. From the 1350s during the Hundred Years' War the town became vulnerable to pillage by marauding bands of mercenaries and in 1357 under Innocent VI, the fifth Avignon pope, work began on the construction of new set of city walls to enclose the expanded town. The walls took nearly 20 years to complete.
The walls stretch for 2.7 miles.
There were originally twelve gates controlling access to the city but this number was reduced to seven when the fortifications were modified between 1481 and 1487. There are now 15 vehicular entrances and 11 pedestrian entrances.
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Avignon is a classically beautiful town, the train station however reminded me of a set from Logans Run.
There was so little color is my shots of Avignon because of the dark and cloudy day that I just went ahead and made them completely black and white. I think the B&W does something to capture the strength of the structures.
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Pont Avignon is the 16th century built bridge across the Rhone River. After the bridge was destroyed by a flood, the citizens of Avignon took the fallen parts of the bridge to build their homes. What remains is a section of the bridge which is now a museum. The citizens of Avignon would sit under the bridge and picnic and dance around on their day off.