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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Avignon","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"A papal palace the size of a small town, a bridge that stops halfway across the river, and the best base in Provence \u2014 plus a festival in July that takes over everything.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1304132","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"1309\u20131377 | When the popes ruled from here, not Rome\r\n4.3 km | Of intact medieval ramparts\r\n4 | Arches left of the 22 the bridge once had","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"Where the popes lived for most of the fourteenth century","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"For most of the fourteenth century the papacy was not in Rome. Seven popes ruled from Avignon between 1309 and 1377, and the Palais des Papes they built is the largest Gothic palace in the world \u2014 a fortress and a court at once, and vast enough that walking it takes a couple of hours.\r\n\r\nThe Pont Saint-B\u00e9n\u00e9zet is the bridge from the song. Twenty-two arches once crossed the Rh\u00f4ne; four remain, stopping abruptly over the water, because the river kept washing the rest away until the town stopped rebuilding it in the seventeenth century.\r\n\r\nThe ramparts are intact for more than four kilometres and enclose the whole old town.\r\n\r\nIn July the Festival d'Avignon fills every venue, courtyard and doorway in the city \u2014 the official programme plus a fringe of well over a thousand shows \u2014 and the population roughly doubles.\r\n\r\nTwo days, and it is the natural base for the rest of Provence.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | TGV from Paris 2h40. Two stations \u2014 Avignon TGV outside town, Avignon Centre by the walls, shuttle between them\r\nGetting around | The walled town is small and walkable. Buses about \u20ac1.40\r\nCurrency | Euro\r\nThe festival | July. Book beds months ahead or stay outside the city\r\nThe mistral | A cold northerly wind that blows hard for days, mostly winter and spring\r\nTipping | Service is included. Rounding up is plenty","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"A small walled town, with the island and Villeneuve across the river.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"14","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"Intra-muros | First-timers | Inside the walls: the palace, the squares, the restaurants and nearly everything. Small and walkable. | 43.9490 | 4.8070 |  | \nAround Avignon Centre station | Value and transport | Just outside the southern wall: cheaper beds, the local station and five minutes on foot into town. | 43.9430 | 4.8060 |  | \n\u00cele de la Barthelasse | Green and quiet | The river island: campsites, cheaper rooms and the classic view back at the palace and the bridge. | 43.9560 | 4.8010 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Avignon","hw_hub_city_do_body":"The Palais des Papes, about \u20ac12, is the largest Gothic palace in the world. It is mostly empty of furnishings, which some people find disappointing and others find the point \u2014 the scale of the halls and the surviving frescoes in the papal chambers carry it. A combined ticket with the bridge costs a little more.\r\n\r\nThe Pont Saint-B\u00e9n\u00e9zet, about \u20ac5 alone, is four arches ending over the Rh\u00f4ne. You can walk out onto it. The honest advice is that the better view is from the \u00cele de la Barthelasse or Villeneuve across the water, where you see the bridge, the palace and the walls together \u2014 and that costs nothing.\r\n\r\nThe Rocher des Doms, the gardens on the rock above the palace, is free and gives the view over the river and towards Mont Ventoux.\r\n\r\nWalk the ramparts. More than four kilometres, intact, and free.\r\n\r\nThe Collection Lambert, about \u20ac10, is a strong contemporary art museum in two eighteenth-century mansions.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"Palais des Papes | About \u20ac12. The largest Gothic palace in the world\r\nThe bridge | About \u20ac5, or view it free from across the river\r\nRocher des Doms | Free gardens above the palace, with the best view in town\r\nThe ramparts | Free, intact, and over four kilometres","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Avignon","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Avignon","hw_hub_city_free_body":"The Rocher des Doms gardens above the palace are free and give the view over the Rh\u00f4ne, the bridge and, on a clear day, Mont Ventoux.\r\n\r\nThe ramparts are free and run more than four kilometres around the whole old town.\r\n\r\nThe \u00cele de la Barthelasse, reached by a free ferry across the river in season, gives the classic postcard view of the bridge and palace together without paying for either.\r\n\r\nPlace de l'Horloge and the old town squares cost nothing and are where the town sits in the evening.\r\n\r\nLes Halles, the covered market, has a free cooking demonstration most Saturday mornings, and is the best place to eat cheaply the rest of the week.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"Rocher des Doms | Free, and the best view in the city\r\nThe free ferry | Across to the island in season, for the postcard view\r\nThe ramparts | Over four kilometres, intact and free\r\nLes Halles | Free cooking demonstration most Saturdays","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Avignon","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Avignon","hw_hub_city_food_body":"Proven\u00e7al cooking: olive oil, tomato, herbs, lamb, aubergine. Ratatouille and daube proven\u00e7ale, the slow beef and red wine stew, are the plates to look for at \u20ac16 to \u20ac24.\r\n\r\nLes Halles, the covered market, is the best value in the city \u2014 counters doing oysters, charcuterie and cooked plates at \u20ac10 to \u20ac16, with a free cooking demonstration on Saturday mornings.\r\n\r\nThe old town squares are lined with terraces that are pleasant and priced for visitors; one street back is better.\r\n\r\nA lunch formule is \u20ac14 to \u20ac19.\r\n\r\nThe wine is the real draw. Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape is fifteen kilometres away, Gigondas and Vacqueyras not much further, and a glass of good southern Rh\u00f4ne is \u20ac4 to \u20ac6.50.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Les Halles | \u20ac10\u201316 at the counters, and the best value here\r\nDaube proven\u00e7ale | \u20ac16\u201324, slow beef in red wine\r\nSouthern Rh\u00f4ne wine | \u20ac4\u20136.50 a glass, from fifteen kilometres away\r\nLunch formule | \u20ac14\u201319","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Avignon","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Avignon","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Quiet for eleven months and extraordinary for one.\r\n\r\nOutside July, the evening is terraces on Place de l'Horloge and Place Pie, a handful of bars in the old town, and a small student presence from the university.\r\n\r\nA beer is \u20ac4 to \u20ac6.50 and cocktails \u20ac8 to \u20ac12.\r\n\r\nIn July the Festival d'Avignon and its fringe turn every courtyard, chapel and doorway into a venue. Performers hand out flyers in the streets all day, shows run from morning to well past midnight, and the whole walled town becomes one continuous event. It is genuinely one of the great festivals in Europe.\r\n\r\nOutside the festival, Avignon is a place to eat well and go to bed.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Quiet most of the year | Terraces and a few bars\r\nJuly is different | The festival turns the whole town into a venue\r\nPrices | Beer \u20ac4\u20136.50, cocktails \u20ac8\u201312\r\nPlace de l'Horloge | Where the evening happens outside July","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Avignon","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Avignon","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"The walled town is small \u2014 twenty minutes across on foot \u2014 and almost everything is inside it.\r\n\r\nThere are two stations and this catches people out constantly. Avignon TGV sits outside the city and takes the fast Paris services; Avignon Centre is beside the walls and takes regional trains. A shuttle train links them in about five minutes.\r\n\r\nBuses cost about \u20ac1.40 and a free ferry crosses to the \u00cele de la Barthelasse in season.\r\n\r\nParis is two hours forty by TGV, Marseille an hour, N\u00eemes and Arles about twenty minutes each.\r\n\r\nFor Provence proper \u2014 the Luberon villages, Mont Ventoux, the lavender country \u2014 you need a car or a tour, since bus services are thin and slow.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Two stations | Avignon TGV outside, Avignon Centre at the walls\r\nWalk | Twenty minutes across the walled town\r\nArles and N\u00eemes | About twenty minutes each by train\r\nThe Luberon needs a car | Buses are thin and slow","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Avignon","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Avignon costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Reasonable for eleven months and severe in July. Dorms are \u20ac22 to \u20ac38 normally and \u20ac50 to \u20ac90 during the festival, when the whole city books out.\r\n\r\nA lunch formule is \u20ac14 to \u20ac19 and a beer \u20ac4 to \u20ac6.50.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac50 to \u20ac90, and considerably more in July.\r\n\r\nThe ramparts, the Rocher des Doms and the island ferry are free, and the view of the bridge from across the river costs nothing where the bridge itself is about \u20ac5.\r\n\r\nThe Palais des Papes at about \u20ac12 is the one entry worth paying, and a combined palace and bridge ticket saves a little.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u20ac22\u201338, and \u20ac50\u201390 in July\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac50\u201390\r\nView the bridge for free | From the island or Villeneuve\r\nPalais des Papes | About \u20ac12, and the one to pay for","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Avignon","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Avignon","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Avignon is a safe small city and the crime affecting visitors is petty theft.\r\n\r\nPickpocketing happens around the palace, at both stations and in the festival crowds, which are dense enough in July to be the main risk of the year.\r\n\r\nThe area immediately around Avignon Centre station is scruffier at night without being dangerous.\r\n\r\nThe Rh\u00f4ne is fast, cold and deep, and the riverbank below the ramparts is unlit in places.\r\n\r\nThe mistral blows hard for days at a time, mostly in winter and spring \u2014 strong enough to blow over caf\u00e9 furniture and make cycling unpleasant. Summers are hot, often above 33\u00b0C, with little shade on the ramparts. Emergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Festival crowds in July | Dense, and where pickpocketing concentrates\r\nThe mistral | Strong enough to move furniture. Mostly winter and spring\r\nSummer heat | Above 33\u00b0C, with no shade on the ramparts\r\nEmergency | 112","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Avignon","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Avignon","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"Roman ruins, hill villages and the best wine in the southern Rh\u00f4ne.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Pont du Gard | 45 minutes | Bus, about \u20ac6 | A three-tier Roman aqueduct bridge, UNESCO-listed, with swimming in the river beneath it in summer. |  | 1304254\nArles | 20 minutes | Train, about \u20ac8 | A Roman amphitheatre still in use, and the town where Van Gogh painted more than two hundred canvases in fifteen months. |  | 1304255\nLes Baux-de-Provence | 1 hour | Bus or tour, \u20ac8\u201320 | A ruined fortress on a limestone spur, with the Carri\u00e8res des Lumi\u00e8res projecting art onto quarry walls below. |  | 1304256\nCh\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape | 30 minutes | Bus, about \u20ac3 | The pope's vineyard, fifteen kilometres north, with tasting rooms through the village and a ruined castle above. |  | 1304257\nThe Luberon | 1 hour | Car or tour, \u20ac50\u201390 for a day tour | Gordes, Roussillon and the ochre villages, plus lavender fields in late June and July. |  | 1304258","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Avignon","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May, June, September and October. July is the festival, which doubles the population and the prices.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. The festival in July is the single biggest variable here \u2014 it roughly doubles the town's population, fills every bed for a hundred kilometres, and is either exactly why you came or exactly why you should come in September instead.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 11 | 2 | Cold for Provence, with the mistral. Cheapest and quietest\r\nFebruary | 13 | 2 | Bright and windy. Almond blossom late in the month\r\nMarch | 16 | 3 | Warming. Good walking weather and thin crowds\r\nApril | 19 | 4 | Very good. Everything open and the countryside green\r\nMay | 23 | 5 | Excellent. Warm and not yet crowded\r\nJune | 28 | 5 | The best month. Lavender starting in the Luberon late on\r\nJuly | 31 | 5 | The festival. Hot, packed, expensive and remarkable\r\nAugust | 30 | 4 | Hot and touristed, with the festival over\r\nSeptember | 26 | 5 | Superb. Harvest in the vineyards and the weather holds\r\nOctober | 20 | 4 | Very good value and still warm\r\nNovember | 14 | 2 | Cooling and wetter. Very quiet\r\nDecember | 11 | 2 | Cold, windy and cheap. Christmas market in the centre","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"One of the great theatre festivals in the world, every July.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Avignon","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/france\/avignon\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Festival d'Avignon | July | Citywide | The official programme in the Palais des Papes courtyard and major venues, plus a fringe of well over a thousand shows in every courtyard, chapel and doorway. Book beds months ahead. |  | \nLavender season | Late June to mid-July | The Luberon and Sault | When the fields flower. The timing shifts each year with the weather and altitude. |  | \nHarvest | September | Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape and the southern Rh\u00f4ne | The vendange across the vineyards around the city. |  | \nChristmas market | December | Place de l'Horloge | A market with santons, the Proven\u00e7al painted clay figures. |  | \nLes Hivernales | February | Citywide | A contemporary dance festival, and the main reason to be here in winter. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"These are ordinary-season figures. July runs roughly double on beds, and day tours into the Luberon sit outside them at \u20ac50 to \u20ac90.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 22 | 15 | 3 | 6\r\nMiddle of the road | 36 | 30 | 4 | 20\r\nComfortable | 64 | 52 | 7 | 40","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Avignon","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A small scene inside and just outside the walls, which disappears entirely in July. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Avignon","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/france\/avignon\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Avignon travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"Is the bridge worth paying for? | About \u20ac5 to walk out onto four arches that stop over the river. The better view \u2014 bridge, palace and ramparts together \u2014 is from the \u00cele de la Barthelasse or Villeneuve across the water, and that costs nothing. Pay for it if the song means something to you.\r\nIs the Palais des Papes worth \u20ac12? | Yes, once. It is the largest Gothic palace in the world and the scale is the point \u2014 it is mostly unfurnished, which disappoints some visitors, but the surviving frescoes in the papal chambers and the sheer size of the halls carry it.\r\nWhat is the festival? | The Festival d'Avignon, every July: an official programme in the palace courtyard and major venues, plus a fringe of well over a thousand shows in every available space. The population roughly doubles, beds book out for a hundred kilometres around, and it is one of the great theatre events in the world.\r\nCan I visit in July without festival tickets? | Yes, and plenty do \u2014 the fringe performers flyer in the streets all day and much of the atmosphere is free. But beds cost roughly double and sell out months ahead, so decide deliberately rather than arriving and hoping.\r\nWhich station do I arrive at? | Avignon TGV sits outside the city and takes the fast Paris trains. Avignon Centre is beside the walls and takes regional services. A shuttle train links them in about five minutes \u2014 check which one your ticket says.\r\nIs it a good base for Provence? | The best one by public transport. Arles and N\u00eemes are twenty minutes by train, the Pont du Gard forty-five by bus, Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape thirty. The Luberon villages and lavender fields need a car or a tour, since the buses are thin.\r\nWhen is the lavender out? | Late June to mid-July in most of the Luberon, later at altitude around Sault. The timing shifts each year with the weather, so check before building a trip around it.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Avignon hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. 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