1309年、フランス王フィリップ4世の画策により教皇クレメント5世が教皇庁をアヴィニョンに移して以来、1377年まで7人の教皇が住んでいたそうです。教皇庁がローマ以外に置かれていたなんて知りませんでした。
After leaving Corsica, we visited Avignon, the main city of the Provence region in southern France.
Since Pope Clement V moved the papal court to Avignon in 1309, having been encouraged by the scheming of Philippe IV of France, 7 Popes had lived there by 1377. I didn't know the papal court had been away from Rome.
First, we visited the Palais des Papes, the Papal Palace, in anticipation of seeing a gorgeous palace appropriate for Popes. However, there were many bare rooms without furniture or ornaments, exposing stone walls inside. That was because virtually all the furnishings and works of art had been destroyed or looted following the Revolution of 1789. From a tourist's point of view, it was rather dull. It looked like a huge fortress rather than a palace.
Then we went to see The Pont Saint Benezet, the Avignon Bridge, which is well-known thanks to a children's song, Sur la pont d'Avignon (Under the Bridge of Avignon). It is called "bridge" but it has no connection to the other side of the river. It used to be 900m length with 22 arches but having been damaged by battles or floods several times, its restoration finally stopped.
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