Avignon is one of the most lively and attractive cities in France, it is the financial and organizational capital of the Provence and Camargue. Avignon is considered as one of the oldest city of France and it is gifted with the natural beauty of architectural and imaginative heritage. The most interesting thing about Avignon is its gothic ensembles all around Europe. Due to its theater festivel Avignon is famous worldwide. Avignon theater festival is considered as the most popular in world. During 14th century it was capital of the Christian world. The actual feeling of Avignon is the amazing beauty of 360 degree panoramas. The most important thing about Avignon is its Palace of the Popes which is considered as the living place for several popes during 14th to 15th century.
Avignon is located on the left bank of Rhone and Durance is just in few miles from this place. The popular cities near to Avignon are Paris and Lyon. The area of Avignon is in the shape of oval. Its large area is covered with beautiful parks and gardens. Avignon weather is a quite windy one and the strongest wind in all these is mistral.Apaoprt from this some of Avignon area are of no wind like venenosa and vento fastidiosia. Avignon is the metropolitan area due to presence of Grand Avignon which is famous for its communes which are place on both sides of the river. As per the site of Avignon it was settled very early which is placed on the north end of the town and some of its sites are as the hill fort. It is considered as an adventurous place for people who love adventure. According to roman’s history Avignon was considered as the first transalpine of the Romans territory. But very little text is their concerning the popularity of Avignon. During 5th century it was badly damaged due to the revenge of barbarians. Therefore after the battle it was ruined by Burgundy kingdom and its name gets changed to Goths.
Avignon history
Avignon has achieved a great pride due to residence of several popes and it is the only city which welcomed so many numbers of popes. In the starting of 1309 for the first time Avignon was chosen to be the pope’s residence .At this time this city was surrounded by the Comtat Venaissin and the emperor was the king of Sicily. Therefore for this period it was Papacy in place of Rome who ruled the country. The crudest ruler of Avignon was Phillip. He enters the Avignon and marked his edge of kingdom and at the same time the city gets flooded and the situations become more drastic but he never turned up to help them and even taxed them for the kingdoms domain. This period is also considered as Babylonian Captivity of exile. The walls which are the symbols of pope residence are well conserved after the immigration of different kingdoms. All these walls are made up of natural spur rock therefore it is safe even today also.
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