Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Vaucluse
Arrondissement of Avignon

Avignon

Avignon is the capital of the French department of in , and is on the banks of the Rhône river. Avignon was one of the European Cities of Culture in 2000 and its historical centre has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
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  • Type: City with 90,300 residents
  • Description: commune in Vaucluse, France
  • Also known as: “Avignoun” and “Avinhon”
  • Postal codes: 84000 and 84140
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pont Saint-Bénézet and Avignon Cathedral.

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The , also known as the Pont d'Avignon, was a medieval bridge across the in the town of Avignon, in southern . Only four arches survive.

Church
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is a Roman Catholic church located next to the in Avignon, . The cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Avignon.

Museum
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The is a museum and art gallery in Avignon, southern France. It opened in 1976 and has an exceptional collection of "primitives" and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, which reunites those of the collection of Giampietro Campana deposed by the Musée du Louvre as well as paintings of the Avignon school deposed by the Musée Calvet.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and Ile Piot.

Town
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is a commune in the department in southern . It can also be spelled Villeneuve-lez-Avignon.

Locality
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is a locality.

Avignon

Latitude
43.9492° or 43° 56′ 57″ north
Longitude
4.8059° or 4° 48′ 21″ east
Population
90,300
Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)
IATA airport code
AVN
United Nations Location Code
FR AVN
Open location code
8FM6WRX4+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1836027948
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3035681
Wiki­data ID
Q6397
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Avignon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Avignon”
  • Albanian: “Avignon”
  • Albanian: “Avinjoni”
  • Arabic: “أفنيون”
  • Arabic: “أفينيون”
  • Aragonese: “Avinyón”
  • Armenian: “Ավինյոն”
  • Arpitan: “Avignon”
  • Asturian: “Avignon”
  • Asturian: “Avignoun”
  • Asturian: “Avinhon”
  • Asturian: “Aviñón”
  • Azerbaijani: “Avinyon”
  • Bambara: “Avignon”
  • Basque: “Avignon”
  • Basque: “Avignoun”
  • Basque: “Avinhon”
  • Bavarian: “Avignon”
  • Belarusian: “Авіньён”
  • Bengali: “আভিনিওঁ”
  • Breton: “Avignon”
  • Breton: “Avinhon”
  • Bulgarian: “Авиньон”
  • Burmese: “အက်ဗီညွန်မြို့”
  • Cajun French: “Avignon”
  • Catalan: “Avignoun”
  • Catalan: “Avinhon”
  • Catalan: “Avinyó”
  • Cebuano: “Avignon”
  • Chechen: “Авиньон”
  • Chinese: “Avignon”
  • Chinese: “亚维农”
  • Chinese: “亞維儂”
  • Chinese: “亞維農”
  • Chinese: “阿維尼翁”
  • Chinese: “阿维尼翁”
  • Chuvash: “Авиньон”
  • Corsican: “Avignon”
  • Croatian: “Avignon”
  • Czech: “Avignon”
  • Dagbani: “Avignon”
  • Danish: “Avignon”
  • Dutch: “Avignon”
  • Dutch: “Avignoun”
  • Dutch: “Avinhon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “افينيون”
  • Esperanto: “Avignon”
  • Esperanto: “Avignoun”
  • Esperanto: “Avinhon”
  • Esperanto: “Avinjono”
  • Estonian: “Avignon”
  • Faroese: “Avignon”
  • Finnish: “Avignon”
  • French: “Avignon”
  • French: “Avignoun”
  • French: “Avinhon”
  • French: “cité des papes”
  • Friulian: “Avignon”
  • Galician: “Avignon”
  • Galician: “Aviñón”
  • Georgian: “ავინიონი”
  • German: “Avignon”
  • German: “Avignoun”
  • German: “Avinhon”
  • Greek: “Αβινιόν”
  • Gujarati: “એવિગ્નન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Avignon”
  • Hausa: “Avignon”
  • Hebrew: “אביניון”
  • Hindi: “अविगनोन”
  • Hungarian: “Avignon”
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  • Ido: “Avignon”
  • Indonesian: “Avignon”
  • Interlingua: “Avignon”
  • Interlingue: “Avignon”
  • Irish: “Avignon”
  • Italian: “Avignon”
  • Italian: “Avignone”
  • Italian: “Avignoun”
  • Italian: “Avinhon”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Avignon”
  • Japanese: “Avignon”
  • Japanese: “Avignoun”
  • Japanese: “Avinhon”
  • Japanese: “アヴィニョン”
  • Kabyle: “Avignon”
  • Kalaallisut: “Avignon”
  • Kannada: “ಅವಿಗ್ನಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Авиньон”
  • Kongo: “Avignon”
  • Korean: “아비뇽”
  • Kurdish: “Avignon”
  • Ladin: “Avignon”
  • Latin: “Avennio”
  • Latvian: “Avignon”
  • Latvian: “Avinhon”
  • Latvian: “Aviņona”
  • Ligurian: “Avignon”
  • Limburgan: “Avignon”
  • Lingala: “Avignon”
  • Lithuanian: “Avignon”
  • Lithuanian: “Avinhon”
  • Lithuanian: “Avinjonas”
  • Low German: “Avignon”
  • Luxembourgish: “Avignon”
  • Macedonian: “Авињон”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Avignon”
  • Malagasy: “Avignon”
  • Malay: “Avignon”
  • Maltese: “Avignon”
  • Marathi: “आव्हियों”
  • Mazanderani: “آوینیون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Avignon”
  • Minangkabau: “Avignon”
  • Mingrelian: “ავინიონი”
  • Narom: “Avignon”
  • Neapolitan: “Avignon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Avignon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Avignon”
  • Norwegian: “Avignon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Avignon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Avignoun”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Avinhon”
  • Ossetian: “Авиньон”
  • Pampanga: “Avignon”
  • Papiamento: “Avignon”
  • Persian: “آوینیون”
  • Persian: “اوینیون”
  • Picard: “Avignon”
  • Piemontese: “Avignon”
  • Polish: “Awinion”
  • Pontic: “Αβινιόν”
  • Portuguese: “Avignon”
  • Portuguese: “Avinhão”
  • Portuguese: “Avinhon”
  • Prussian: “Avignon”
  • Romagnol: “Avignon”
  • Romanian: “Avignon”
  • Romansh: “Avignon”
  • Russian: “Авиньон”
  • Sardinian: “Avignone”
  • Scots: “Avignon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Avignon”
  • Serbian: “Avignon”
  • Serbian: “Авињон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Avignon”
  • Sicilian: “Avignuni”
  • Silesian: “Avignon”
  • Sinhala: “අවිග්නොන්”
  • Slovak: “Avignon”
  • Slovenian: “Avignon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوینیون”
  • Spanish: “Avignon”
  • Spanish: “Avignoun”
  • Spanish: “Avinhon”
  • Spanish: “Aviñón”
  • Swahili: “Avignon”
  • Swedish: “Avignon”
  • Swiss German: “Avignon”
  • Tamil: “அவிக்னோன்”
  • Tatar: “Авиньон”
  • Tatar: “Авиньоң”
  • Telugu: “అవిగ్నోన్”
  • Thai: “อาวีญง”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཝི་ཉོང་།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Avignon”
  • Turkish: “Avignon”
  • Twi: “Avignon”
  • Ukrainian: “Авіньйон”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Avignon”
  • Urdu: “آوینیو”
  • Uzbek: “Avignon”
  • Venetian: “Avignon”
  • Vietnamese: “Avignon”
  • Vlaams: “Avignon”
  • Volapük: “Avignon”
  • Walloon: “Avignon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Avignon”
  • Welsh: “Avignon”
  • Western Armenian: “Աւինիոն”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایوگناں”
  • Wolof: “Avignon”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿维尼昂”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞維農”
  • Zulu: “Avignon”
  • “Avignon”
  • “Avignòṅ”

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