Tourist Attractions & Monuments Avignon

A huge limestone mass above, which served as protection for the city during its construction and its development... In the sixties, excavations have unearthed a human occupation from the Neolithic period, as evidence, a stele engraved with a face, called "the first Avignon." The Rocher des Doms rises above a beautiful garden of the same name. The view that is offered from the terrace is breath-taking: one distinguishes the Mont Andaon on which the majestic Fort Saint-André stands - by moving its gaze to the left - the Philippe Le Bel Tower of Villeneve-lez-Avignon.

Found in the Jesuit chapel, the Lapidaire Museum has some collections of Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Gallo-Roman and Egyptian arts from the Calvet museum. It has recently been refurbished to permit the public to see some articles that have been preserved for more than fifty years, while waiting for the creation of a room dedicated to Antiquity. You can discover several chapels dedicated to the Greek collections, including monumental vases and an exceptional collection of funerary steles and votive reliefs, from the excavations undertaken by the Fondation Calvet in Vaison-la-Romaine 1838-1852. The baroque chapel and its stone decor are also worth a visit. A Greek chapel was opened in 2013 with the presentation of Corinthian and Attic vases, classic and Hellenistic terra-cottas from Asia Minor, Egypt, Greece and Magna Graecia. Among the latter, figures a beautiful male head that was part of a statue that dates from the first half of the third century BC.

Offices Monday to Saturday at 8 a. m. and Sunday at 10 p. m.

Offices Monday to Friday at p. m., Sundays at p. m., p. m. (Gregorian mass) and p. m. (evensong).

Offices on Monday, Thursday and Friday at a. m. and Sundays at 10 p. m.