Sunday, August 03, 2014

Day 2 ... Inside the Walls of Avignon (Palais des Papes & Tour of Pont Saint-Bénézet)

Palais des Papes (Palace of the Popes)




View of the palace from Pont Saint-Bénézet





Pont Saint-Bénézet ... spanning the Rhone between Villeneuve-lès-Avignon & Avignon was built between 1177 and 1185. This early bridge was destroyed forty years later during the Albigensian Crusade.


Bikes of Avignon


 


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