Avignon invites you to share its lifestyle and superb heritage.
With its bridge, famous the world over in the beloved children's song, the Palace of the Popes, testimony to its prestigious past as Capital of Christianity in the Middle Ages, Avignon offers grandiose architecture, ranked among UNESCO's World Heritage.
The Avignon theatre festival in the summer has been the international meeting point for contemporary creation for the 60 years.
Avignon is also the ideal base for exploring Provence - the Luberon, the Apilles, Camargue and all the beauty of Provence.
Avignon also means Provencal cuisine and Côtes du Rhône wines, discovery and lifestyle.
Have a Great Weekend in Avignon
From 1st November 2009 to 31 march 2010
Two nights at the hotel for the price of one !
2 guided visits of Avignon for the price of one
2 shows or 2 monuments for the price of one
many free offers
More info : www.bonweekendavignon.com
Hubert Robert, 18th century promenade
Musée Angladon
20 March to 20 June
55 works by Hubert Robert on loan from the great French museums, displayed at Angladon Museum. The exhibition takes the viewer on a lovely promenade in the 18th century, through landscapes and curiosities drawn by Hubert Robert, an outstanding artist whose use of the iron red pigment known as sanguine gave great warmth and life to his works.
Festo Pitcho | 4th edition
Many different venues in Avignon
27 March to 3 April
4th annual event featuring performing arts for the young crowd, coordinated by the Festo Pitcho collective which is made up of twenty partners. Theatre, marionnettes, music, dance, storytelling, poetry for audiences from 6 months old to 18 years old and over … The Festo Pitcho Parade kicks festivities off with a great parade on Saturday 27 March through the streets of Avignon ! Parade starts at 3 pm from the Agricol Perdiguier garden on Cours Jean Jaurès
Avignon Tourism Office
41, cours Jean Jaures - BP 8
84000 Avignon cedex1
tel. +33 (0)4 32 74 32 74
fax +33 (0)4 90 82 95 03
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Strolling in the streets of Avignon with the tour guides of the Tourist Office.
They will make you love Avignon, telling you the great history as well as the little story.
-20 à 50% reduction to all the monuments and museums
-20% reduction on tourism transportation
AvignonPassion is given free of charge.
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