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   Palais des Papes

   The Palais des Papes (English: Palace of the Popes; lo Palais dei Papas in Occitan) in Avignon, Southern France, is one of the largest and most important medieval Gothic buildings in Europe.

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   Avignon Cathedral

   Avignon Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms d'Avignon; Occitan: Catedral Nòstra Dama dels Dòms d'Avinhon) is a Roman Catholic church located next to the Palais des Papes in Avignon, France.

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   Glanum

   Glanum (Hellenistic Γλανόν, as well as Glano, Calum, Clano, Clanum, Glanu, Glano) was an ancient and wealthy city which still enjoys a magnificent setting below a gorge on the flanks of the Alpilles mountains.

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   Monastery of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole

   The Monastery of Saint Paul de Mausole (French: monastère Saint-Paul-de-Mausole) is a former Roman Catholic 10th-century Benedictine priory, then an 11th-century Augustinian monastery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France.

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   Musée du Petit Palais

   The Musée du Petit Palais (Occitan: Museu dels Pichon Palai) is a museum and art gallery in Avignon, southern France.

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   Mausoleum of Glanum

   The Mausoleum of Glanum is a Gallo-Roman monument erected by either 40 BC during the late Roman Republic, or between 30 and 20 BC during the transition from Republic to Empire, located south of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France.

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   Frigolet Abbey

   Frigolet Abbey (French: Abbaye Saint-Michel de Frigolet; Occitan: Abadiá de Frigolet) is a grand Premonstratensian monastery complex in Southern France.

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   Synagogue d'Avignon

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   Avignon city wall

   The walls of Avignon (French: Les Remparts d'Avignon) are a series of defensive stone walls that surround the city of Avignon in the south of France.

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    Montfavet

    Montfavet is a district of the city of Avignon in the Vaucluse in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

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   Calvet Museum

   The Calvet Museum is the main museum in Avignon.

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   Fort Saint-André (Villeneuve-lès-Avignon)

   The Fort Saint-André is a medieval fortress in the commune of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon in the Gard département of France, dating from the first half of the 14th century.

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   Glanum Dam

   The Glanum Dam, also known as the Vallon de Baume dam, was a Roman arch dam built to supply water to the Roman town of Glanum, the remains of which stand outside the town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in Southern France.

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   Tower of Philip the Fair

   Tour Philippe-le-Bel (English: Tower of Philip the Fair) is a medieval tower in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon which marked the French terminus of the Saint-Bénézet Bridge across the Rhone between the Kingdom of France and Papal territory of Avignon.

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   Abbaye de Saint-Ruf d'Avignon

   The abbey of Saint-Ruf (Occitan: Abadia de Sant-Ruf) was a house of canons regular in the city of Avignon between the 11th and 18th centuries. It was the mother house and original headquarters of the Order of Saint-Ruf.

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   Musée Angladon

   The Angladon Museum – Jacques Doucet (French – Musée Angladon – Collection Jacques Doucet) is a museum at 5 rue Laboureur in Avignon.

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   Musée lapidaire d'Avignon

   The Lapidary Museum is a lapidarium-museum in Avignon, France. It has housed the classical Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Gallo-Roman sculptures and objects of the Calvet Museum since the 1980s.

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   Palais des papes of Sorgues

   The Palais des papes of Sorgues is the first papal residence built by the Avignon Papacy in the fourteenth century. Its construction was ordered by John XXII and preceded by 18 years the Palais des papes.

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   Palais du Roure

   The Palais du Roure is a listed hôtel particulier in Avignon, France.

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    Muséum Requien

    Museum Requien (and not Musée Requien) is a natural history museum in Avignon, France. Some of Jean Henri Fabre's work is displayed here.

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