- Fantastic location, just outside Avignon & within easy reach of Chateauneuf de Pape. You do need a car though, no regular public transport to the site.
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- Avignon is the capital of the French department of Vaucluse in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and is on the banks of the Rhône river.
- I recently spent about two weeks in Avignon and had a chance to visit all of the city’s best attractions (and a few duds that I won’t bother mentioning in this guide).
- This period furnished Avignon with a glorious cityscape of gothic and renaissance buildings that today are protected as a UNESCO site.
- Currently 16,000 people (of a total local population of approximately 200,000) live in the old town surrounded by the magnificent ramparts for which Avignon is famous.
- And just to see the sights, you can spend days wandering the neighbourhoods within the city walls and never get bored. Avignon is full of history and full of life.
- Avignon's nightlife is all about roaming its narrow, softly lighted streets, stopping as soon as you hear the locals' accents warming the airwaves on a cafe terrace.
- Avignon is a city of antiquity with a long and rich history. It has a well-preserved old town and some of the most impressive medieval castles you will see in France.
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