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Avignon, route de Montfavet. Signé Wild Sketch, KRS-CES-OVB-OPK
(œuvres réalisées grâce à "Produit conforme")
Pont Saint-Bénezet
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UNESCO World Heritage Site
Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge
Avignon tramcar, working toward the city center and Saint-Roch terminal. This location is alongside Avenue Pierre Semard, just east of the Barbière - Cap Sud tram station.
Pierre Semard (1887-1942) was a leader of the railway union "Fédération des travailleurs cadres et techniciens des chemins de fer CGT," also known as the " Fédération CGT des cheminots" (CGT = "Confédération générale du travail"). He was also a leader of the Parti communiste français (PCF), and served as its secretary-general during 1924-1928. Imprisoned in 1939 on charges of embezzlement and violation of the ban on the Communist party. He was executed by the German occupiers in 1942.
2021 August 13.
Avignon is a commune in south-eastern France in the department of Vaucluse on the left bank of the Rhône river. Of the 90,194 inhabitants of the city (as of 2011), about 12,000 live in the ancient town centre enclosed by its medieval ramparts.
Between 1309 and 1377 during the Avignon Papacy, seven successive popes resided in Avignon and in 1348 Pope Clement VI bought the town from Joanna I of Naples. Papal control persisted until 1791 when, during the French Revolution, it became part of France. The town is now the capital of the Vaucluse department and one of the few French cities to have preserved its ramparts.
The historic centre, which includes the Palais des Papes, the cathedral, and the Pont d'Avignon, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995. The medieval monuments and the annual Festival d'Avignon have helped to make the town a major centre for tourism.
The commune has been awarded one flower by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom