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Now converted into a municipal library, Livrée Ceccano is not meant to be visited as a museum. She remains a historical building that bears witness to the splendour of the papacy and its influence on Avignon in the fourteenth century. Built in the 1330s, it was originally meant to house Cardinal Hannibal Ceccano and his sequel. The livery remained the residence of cardinals well after the death of Annibal de Ceccano (until the fifteenth century), then it was taken over by the Protestant Charles Brancas before being unceremoniously recovered by the Avignon apostolic chamber. Once acquired, the municipality setup a Jesuit college in 1564 which occupied the premises until the eighteenth century. The college expanded and modified the building to make it more suitable for their teaching activities. The Benedictines and later the Doctrinaires took over the building which was even transformed into a barrack during the French Revolution. In 1810, the city transforms the former livery into a high school and decided to setup a municipal library in the late 1970s. Lovers of architecture and history will not hesitate to visit - discreetly - the study rooms on the first and third floors. On the high ceilings of the old staterooms, you can still see paintings of the fourteenth century ornamentation.
The Ceccano garden and the library have the same opening hours (free access).
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