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Roots Earth in Avignon: audio stories about 40 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 40 places in Avignon, France, in Europe. The Avignon stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Avignon, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 40 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: avignon.md

The 40 places in Avignon with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Palais des Papes
  2. Pont Saint-Benezet (Pont d'Avignon)
  3. Avignon Cathedral
  4. Walls of Avignon
  5. Rocher des Doms
  6. Place de l'Horloge
  7. Musee du Petit Palais
  8. Avignon Festival
  9. Calvet Museum
  10. Avignon Opera House
  11. Avignon City Hall
  12. Collection Lambert
  13. Angladon Museum
  14. Lapidary Museum
  15. Louis Vouland Museum
  16. Requien Natural History Museum
  17. Palais du Roure
  18. Saint-Agricol Church
  19. Hotel d'Europe
  20. Philippe le Bel Tower
  21. Fort Saint-Andre
  22. Saint-Andre Abbey and Gardens
  23. Val de Benediction Charterhouse
  24. Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame
  25. Villeneuve-les-Avignon
  26. Abbey of Saint-Ruf
  27. Avignon-Centre Station
  28. Les Halles Market
  29. Rue des Teinturiers
  30. Barthelasse Island
  31. Place des Carmes
  32. Saint-Veran Cemetery
  33. Avignon University, Hannah Arendt Campus
  34. Golovine Theatre
  35. Lycee Saint-Joseph
  36. Agricol Perdiguier Square
  37. Stade Saint-Ruf
  38. Parc des Sports
  39. Montfavet
  40. Avignon TGV Station

Is there an audio guide for Palais des Papes?

Yes. Palais des Papes has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 40 Avignon places in the app, at 43.9508, 4.8075. Every one of the other 39 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Avignon

Open Roots Earth and choose Avignon. The city has its own map of places with all 40 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 40 places in Avignon, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 40 places in Avignon, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Palais des Papes

Coordinates
43.9508, 4.8075
In one line
The largest Gothic palace ever built, raised in barely twenty years after the papacy moved to Avignon in 1309. Nine popes held court behind its mighty walls, today a UNESCO World Heritage site and the stage of the Festival d'Avignon.

2. Pont Saint-Benezet (Pont d'Avignon)

Coordinates
43.95389, 4.805
In one line
Four arches reaching into the Rhône are all that survive of a medieval bridge once approximately 920 meters long. Made world-famous by the song Sur le Pont d'Avignon, it carries a chapel dedicated to its legendary shepherd builder.

3. Avignon Cathedral

Coordinates
43.95167, 4.8075
In one line
Avignon's Provençal Romanesque cathedral, built mainly in the 12th century beside the Palais des Papes. A gilded statue of the Virgin has crowned its bell tower since 1859, and the Gothic tomb of Pope John XXII stands inside.

4. Walls of Avignon

Coordinates
43.94806, 4.80694
In one line
A complete circuit of 14th-century ramparts, 4. 3 kilometers long, built under the popes to shield a booming capital from mercenary raiders. The towers and gates still trace the exact boundary of Avignon's historic center.

5. Rocher des Doms

Coordinates
43.9527, 4.8066
In one line
A limestone outcrop rising 35 meters above the Rhône, inhabited since the Neolithic era and the birthplace of Avignon.

6. Place de l'Horloge

Coordinates
43.9495, 4.8056
In one line
Avignon's main square, occupying the site of Roman Avenio’s forum and public buildings and named after the 15th-century clock in its Gothic belfry. Café terraces fill the space between the 19th-century city hall and opera house, making it the social heart of the city.

7. Musee du Petit Palais

Coordinates
43.95264, 4.80639

8. Avignon Festival

Coordinates
43.95054, 4.80731
In one line
France's most celebrated theatre festival, founded by Jean Vilar in 1947 and held every July. Hundreds of official and fringe productions transform courtyards, chapels and streets into stages, with night performances inside the Palais des Papes.

9. Calvet Museum

Coordinates
43.9471, 4.8039
In one line
Avignon's fine arts museum, founded in 1811 from the bequest of physician and collector Esprit Calvet. An elegant 18th-century mansion holds paintings, sculpture and antiquities, including works by David, Camille Claudel, Bonnard and Soutine.

10. Avignon Opera House

Coordinates
43.9497, 4.8055
In one line
Avignon's grand municipal theatre, rebuilt in 1846 and 1847 after fire destroyed its predecessor. Its sculpted classical facade, watched over by statues of Corneille and Molière, presides over Place de l'Horloge and still hosts opera, dance and concerts.

11. Avignon City Hall

Coordinates
43.9493, 4.8053
In one line
Avignon's city hall, built between 1845 and 1856 with a stately neoclassical facade by Léon Feuchère. Behind the Corinthian columns rises a 14th-century Gothic clock tower whose jacquemart figures have struck the hours since 1471.

12. Collection Lambert

Coordinates
43.9444, 4.8033
In one line
Contemporary art museum created in 2000 from the collection of dealer Yvon Lambert, spread across two 18th-century townhouses. Works by Cy Twombly, Sol LeWitt and Basquiat hang in white galleries behind sober historic facades.

13. Angladon Museum

Coordinates
43.9461, 4.807
In one line
Intimate museum in an 18th-century townhouse, opened in 1996 to display the art collection of Paris couturier Jacques Doucet. Van Gogh, Cézanne, Degas, Picasso and Modigliani hang in furnished rooms that still feel like a private home.

14. Lapidary Museum

Coordinates
43.9459, 4.806
In one line
Archaeology gallery of the Calvet Museum, housed in a Baroque Jesuit chapel begun in 1620. Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Gallo-Roman carvings line its lofty nave, including the famous man-eating monster known as the Tarasque de Noves.

15. Louis Vouland Museum

Coordinates
43.94728, 4.80066
In one line
A collector's mansion near the western ramparts, holding industrialist Louis Vouland's trove of 17th and 18th century decorative arts. Parisian furniture, southern French faience and tapestries fill period rooms that open onto a quiet garden.

16. Requien Natural History Museum

Coordinates
43.94667, 4.80361
In one line
Avignon's natural history museum, founded in 1840 around the collections of botanist Esprit Requien. Its herbarium of approximately 300,000 specimens, along with fossils, shells and taxidermy, chronicles the landscapes and wildlife of the Vaucluse.

17. Palais du Roure

Coordinates
43.9484, 4.8054
In one line
The 15th-century mansion of the Florentine Baroncelli family, renamed Palais du Roure by the poet Frédéric Mistral. Rescued by Jeanne de Flandreysy in 1918, it now holds archives, bells and treasures of Provençal culture.

18. Saint-Agricol Church

Coordinates
43.9489, 4.8045
In one line
One of Avignon's oldest sanctuaries, dedicated to the 7th-century bishop Agricola, patron saint of the city since 1647. Rebuilt in Gothic style between the 12th and 15th centuries, it still guards his relics.

19. Hotel d'Europe

Coordinates
43.9501, 4.8033
In one line
A mansion of 1580 on Place Crillon that has welcomed travellers since 1799, making it one of the oldest continuously operating hotels in France. Napoleon Bonaparte, Victor Hugo and Pablo Picasso all stayed behind its stone facade.

20. Philippe le Bel Tower

Coordinates
43.95856, 4.79757
In one line
A 39-meter royal watchtower built from the 1290s under King Philip the Fair to guard the French end of the Pont Saint-Bénézet.

21. Fort Saint-Andre

Coordinates
43.96583, 4.80083
In one line
A vast 14th-century royal fortress crowning Mont Andaon above Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, built to display French power facing papal Avignon across the Rhône. Its twin-towered gatehouse, long curtain walls and abbey grounds command sweeping views.

22. Saint-Andre Abbey and Gardens

Coordinates
43.9661, 4.8011
In one line
A Benedictine abbey founded in the early 980s on Mont Andaon, above Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, once master of more than fifty priories. Its terraced Italianate gardens, recreated after 1916 by the poet Elsa Koeberlé, now rank among France's officially remarkable gardens.

23. Val de Benediction Charterhouse

Coordinates
43.968, 4.796
In one line
A vast Carthusian monastery founded in 1356 by Pope Innocent VI in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, once the richest charterhouse in the French kingdom. Its three cloisters, frescoed chapel and papal tomb now host a national centre for playwrights.

24. Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame

Coordinates
43.9633, 4.79665
In one line
A southern Gothic collegiate church consecrated in 1333, founded by Cardinal Arnaud de Via beside his palace in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. Its single nave, 1362 bell tower and quiet cloister hold a celebrated copy of Enguerrand Quarton's Pietà.

25. Villeneuve-les-Avignon

Coordinates
43.9672, 4.7967
In one line
A royal new town founded in 1293 by Philip the Fair on the right bank of the Rhône, facing papal Avignon. Cardinals' palaces, a hilltop fortress, a great charterhouse and masterpiece paintings crowd its golden streets.

26. Abbey of Saint-Ruf

Coordinates
43.93281, 4.81293
In one line
Romanesque ruins of an abbey founded in 1039 south of Avignon's walls, mother house of a reforming order of canons that spread across Europe and gave the Church its only English pope, Adrian IV.

27. Avignon-Centre Station

Coordinates
43.9419, 4.8047
In one line
Avignon's main-line railway station, opened in 1849 and rebuilt under the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean company to a neoclassical design by Louis-Jules Bouchot. Its clock-topped facade faces the medieval ramparts, where most visitors take their first steps into the papal city.

28. Les Halles Market

Coordinates
43.9489, 4.8095
In one line
Avignon's covered food market on Place Pie, heir to a market hall inaugurated in 1899 and rebuilt in 1974 beneath a parking deck. Around fifty traders sell cheese, oysters and Provençal produce every morning except Monday, behind Patrick Blanc's living plant wall.

29. Rue des Teinturiers

Coordinates
43.945, 4.8112
In one line
A cobbled, plane-shaded lane along the Canal de Vaucluse, where waterwheels once powered Avignon's dyers and silk mills. Four restored wheels survive beside café terraces, artisan workshops and some of the Festival Off's liveliest stages.

30. Barthelasse Island

Coordinates
43.9575, 4.801
In one line
A vast green island in the Rhône facing Avignon's ramparts, given over to orchards, farms, towpaths and campsites.

31. Place des Carmes

Coordinates
43.951, 4.8125
In one line
A plane-shaded square in the north of the walled city, named for the Carmelite convent founded here in 1267. A leaning Gothic bell tower, a Sunday flea market and the theatre where the Off festival was born make it the heart of everyday Avignon.

32. Saint-Veran Cemetery

Coordinates
43.9433, 4.8196
In one line
Avignon's main cemetery since 1820, a garden of cypresses and nineteenth-century sculpture often compared with Père-Lachaise in Paris. Among its roughly twelve thousand tombs lie the philosopher John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, and the poets and scholars of old Provence.

33. Avignon University, Hannah Arendt Campus

Coordinates
43.9529, 4.8146
In one line
Avignon's university, founded by papal bull in 1303, abolished in the Revolution and reborn in 1984. Its city-center Hannah Arendt campus occupies the former Sainte-Marthe hospital, a charitable foundation of 1354 fronted by a stately classical facade.

34. Golovine Theatre

Coordinates
43.9504, 4.8093
In one line
A 146-seat dance theatre run by the Golovine family since 1975, housed in a former canon's residence near the Palais des Papes. Each July it becomes the historic home of choreography in Avignon's Off festival; the rest of the year it dances for its neighborhood.

35. Lycee Saint-Joseph

Coordinates
43.94528, 4.81083
In one line
A Jesuit secondary school opened in 1850 on Rue des Lices, heir to a college first founded in Avignon in 1564. Every July its great courtyard becomes an official Festival d'Avignon stage, with open-air seating for around 750 spectators.

36. Agricol Perdiguier Square

Coordinates
43.9457, 4.8058
In one line
A shaded garden beside Cours Jean Jaurès, laid out over the cloister of the medieval abbey of Saint-Martial. Locals call it the Petit Jardin; Gothic arches, Mediterranean planting and a statue of the worker-writer Agricol Perdiguier share its gravel paths.

37. Stade Saint-Ruf

Coordinates
43.9232, 4.8067
In one line
Avignon's historic rugby league ground on Avenue de Tarascon, in use since 1916 and home to Sporting Olympique Avignon. Crowds of ten thousand once packed its banks; today a single stand and a synthetic pitch keep the thirteen-a-side flame alive.

38. Parc des Sports

Coordinates
43.92833, 4.845
In one line
Avignon's largest stadium, opened in 1975 southeast of the walls with room for 17,518 spectators. It has staged sixteen rugby league test matches, including a sold-out World Cup meeting with New Zealand in 2013, alongside football and athletics.

39. Montfavet

Coordinates
43.93556, 4.87361
In one line
A village-like district on Avignon's eastern plain, gathered around the fortified 14th-century church founded by Cardinal Bertrand de Montfavet. Plane-tree squares, market gardens and the hospital where sculptor Camille Claudel spent her final decades shape its quiet character.

40. Avignon TGV Station

Coordinates
43.92167, 4.78583
In one line
Avignon's high-speed gateway since 2001, built on the LGV Méditerranée among the fields of la Courtine. Its curved glass hall, some 340 metres long, rises like an upturned boat hull a few kilometres south of the walled city.

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