Avignon - Don't Miss
Sate your curiosity with intimate museums, art collections and architecture reflecting a range of influences.
Avignon rewards the curiosity of the explorer and the meandering of the flâneur with small museums of historical curiosities. Become better acquainted with local decorative art traditions at the Vouland museum, or meditate on the religious ecstasies of the statuary in the Lapidaire museum. The splendours of Avignon University are tucked away just inside the Porte St-Lazare, while other architectural strong points include the Notre-Dame-des-Doms Cathedral and Avignon's synagogue. The lively (at least in summer) Teinturiers quarter features plane trees, more religious monuments and the grave of Petrarch's muse.
In 1342, at the Avignon coronation of Pope Clement VI, guests could feast on a menu that featured 118 oxen, 1,033 roasted sheep, 1,195 geese, 7,428 chickens, just under 40,000 eggs, about 50,000 pastries, and almost 100,000 loaves of bread.
