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About Avignon

Avignon is one of the most ancient towns in Europe. Avignon is called as city of Popes from 14th century, situated on the south-east of Paris. It counts as one of the beautiful city in France. Here tourists are attracted to see Palais des Papes (The Palace of the Popes), Pont d’Avignon (Avignon Bridge), Summer Markets and Avignon Festival which attracts over half a million visitors a year.

Avignon is known for its annual theatre festival where theatre, dance, and music are performed in the Palace of the Popes and all along the streets by making good use of the town's historical monuments. The city is covered with great parks and gardens, situated on the east bank of the Rhone River, filled with lot of architectural and artistic heritage. Every summer, approximately 100,000 people attend this festival. It has shopping zones and fabulous restaurants.

Avignon is a small city to be visited in a couple of days. Eurostar operates direct trains from London to Avignon starting July to September, which takes journey time of 6 hours from London. At any other time of the year, you can change Eurostar train at Paris and travel on Paris to Avignon with Eurostar partners TGV. To get cheap Eurostar train tickets to Avignon and special offers book these services well in advance of travel.