In the 14th century, this city in the South of France was the seat of the papacy. The Palais des Papes, an austere-looking fortress lavishly decorated by Simone Martini and Matteo Giovanetti, ...

Avignon may be the subject of a famous French song but there is more to this handsome gateway to Provence than dancing on the bridge. You might, for example, enjoy trying some of the highly-regarded ...

A 19-year-old South Korean has drowned at the foot of the world-famous mediaeval bridge in the southern French city of Avignon. Rescue workers were unable to save him after he was draggeddown by the ...

Clinging to a bend in the Rhone River in the south of France, Avignon looks and feels like it stepped out of a medieval fairy tale. While it’s largely famous for its 14th-century heyday as a papal ...

According to the popular French nursery rhyme, there should be people dancing on Avignon bridge. Yet all I can see are tourists wandering towards the point where it dramatically ends in the middle of ...

Avignon is a city that proudly bears its scars. TRAVELBOOK author Frank Lehmann visited and reveals why the rugged sister of Aix-en-Provence tells the better stories. Southern France is a wonderful ...

A summer holiday in France ended in tragedy for a young Korean tourist who has died after swimming by the famous medieval bridge in Avignon, south east France, French media has reported. The ...

The city of Avignon is located on the banks of the River Rhone in southern France. The city was the heart of the Christian world around 700 years ago. Pont Saint-Bénezet was made famous by the ...