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This Avignon tramcar has just turned from reservation alongside the Avenue de la Croix Rouge to reservation alongside the Avenue du Roi Soleil.
Croix Rouge, "Red Cross," may refer to the "section du Bonnet-Rouge," also known as the "section de la Croix-Rouge;" "sections" were subdivisions of Paris during the Révolution. Croix Rouge may also refer to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and its institutions.
Roi Soleil, "Sun King," refers to Louis XIV of France (1638-1715), whose reign of more than 72 years is described as "the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in history."
(A well-known quotation attributed to Louis XIV - "L'état, c'est moi;" "I am the state" - was dismissed as apocryphal within a few decades after it was first reported.)
2021 August 13.
Avignon, a city in Provence in the south-east of France, is crossed by the Rhône. From 1309 to 1377, the Catholic popes took up residence in the city. It remained under papal rule until 1791, when it became part of France.
Are there reflections in this?
No - it's looking down almost vertically to the river from the Rocher des Doms park.
(The viewpoint is shown by the note on my photo Pont d'Avignon (1) in this set.)
25 April 2009
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The Avignon local authority operates a free passenger ferry across the Rhône, near the Pont Saint-Bénézet (Pont d'Avignon).
2021 August 14.
Wikipedia: Avignon Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms d'Avignon) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in Avignon, above the Palais des Papes.
The cathedral is a Romanesque building, mainly of the 12th century, the most prominent feature of which is the gilded statue of the Virgin which surmounts the western tower.