Historic Cities
Explore Avignon in 1350
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Historic Places, Rebuilt · City reconstruction
Clement VI's Avignon, 1350
This is Avignon at the height of the papal court under Clement VI: the Palais des Papes rises in new white stone while cardinals and their retinues give the lanes a towered, princely air. You will cross the Rhône with traders and pilgrims on the Saint-Bénézet bridge, pass tight medieval walls, busy quays of wine and goods, money-changers' tables and the pale massed masonry of the papal palace under scaffolds.
25 scenes, 16 streets, squares and views, 9 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Avignon as it stood in 1350 (“Avignon Papacy”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. View from Villeneuve
- 2. Pont Saint-Bénézet
- ↳ Bridge Chapel · interior
- 3. Quays by the Bridge
- ↳ Wine Merchants' Warehouse · interior
- 4. Île de la Barthelasse
- 5. Porte de l'Oulle
- 6. Rue des Changeurs
- ↳ Money-changers' Counting-House · interior
- 7. Place du Marché
- 8. Rue des Teinturiers
- 9. Livrées des Cardinaux
- ↳ Cardinal's Audience Chamber · interior
- 10. Approach to the Palais
- 11. Place du Palais
- ↳ Grand Tinel · interior
- ↳ Great Chapel · interior
- 12. Notre-Dame des Doms
- ↳ Cathedral Nave · interior
- 13. Rocher des Doms
- 14. Remparts de la Cité
- 15. Rue du Palais
- ↳ Giovannetti's Chapel Workshop · interior
- ↳ Stag Room · interior
- 16. Western Wall Vantage