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The city of Avignon
Avignon has a lot to offer, this is the kind of city that you won't want to leave, some examples of its wonder are:
The Pope's Palace 'Le Palais des Papes' and 'Pont St Bénezet', the first one has an impressive architecture and the works of art that it has inside are simply amazing, many of the rooms of this Palace was destroyed for the fire and now there is only one room fully furnished as it always was, the Pope's Palace has a Gothic structure and is well know for its size, this is the largest Gothic Palace in Europe.
The Palace was built 1335–1364 on a natural spur of rock, rendering it all but impregnable to attack.

The other attraction of Avignon is the famous bridge, history says that this bridge was once used for carrying St Bénezet to Villeneuve, it had 22 wonderfull arches from which just three are left, anyway they are so majestic that you would imagine how wonderful looked with the other arches.
Avignon also has many old churches.
Avignon is an architectural city and it has a wonderful way of delimitating its perimeter, there are different walls in this city, one of them are the Roman walls constructed in the first century with a rectangular shape similar to the Roman constructions, unfortunately there is no document that verifies its exact delimitations.
In the 13th century the King of France Louis VIII ordered to built other walls but they took some more time to get finished, they were concluded in 1248.
The present day walls were ordered to be constructed by Innocent VI, the walls are aproximately 8 meters high and there are 35 high towers and 50 smaller, most of them of rectangular or square shape.
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