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Parc des Sports (Avignon) S. Pont Saint-Bénézet This page was last edited on 9 December 2016, at 23:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Della Rovere arrived in Avignon in 1474, having been made bishop of Avignon and papal legate of Avignon by his uncle Pope Sixtus IV. He added new south and west facades in Italian Renaissance style (with oculi , a west-facing door surmounted with a triangular pediment, window drip-moldings and his insignia facing south) and, in 1487, a tower ...
In 1447, during the residency of Bishop Pierre de Foix, who was the papal legate in Avignon, [4] the town council acquired the apostolic palace from the Benedictines of the Convent of St. Laurence and converted it for municipal use. [5] [6] [7] A clock, equipped with colourful jacquemarts to strike the hour, was installed in the belfry in 1471. [2]
The arrondissement of Avignon is an arrondissement of France in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 16 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 210,535 (2021), and its area is 336.9 km 2 (130.1 sq mi).
The Roman name Avennĭo Cavărum (Mela, II, 575, Pliny III, 36), i.e. "Avignon of Cavares", accurately shows that Avignon was one of the three cities of the Celtic-Ligurian tribe of Cavares, along with Cavaillon and Orange. The current name dates to a pre-Indo-European [12] or pre-Latin [13] theme ab-ên with the suffix -i-ōn(e).
[1] The museum is based at 27 rue de la République in a 17th-century building, previously the chapel of the city's Jesuit College. It was begun in 1616, initially to plans by Étienne Martelange and then by François de Royers de la Valfenière from 1620 onwards. de la Valfenière raised the walls as far as the nave's main cornice. [ 2 ]