Avignon

Commune o Avignon
Location
Avignon
Time zone	CET (GMT +1)
Administration
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Depairtment	Vaucluse
Arrondissement	Avignon
Intercommunality	Grand Avignon
Mayor	Marie-Josée Roig (UMP) (2008–2014)
Statistics
Population2	94,787  (2006)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	84007/ 84000
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an military personnel) anerlie coontit ance.

Avignon (French pronunciation: [aviˈɲɔ̃]; Occitan: Avinhon in classical norm or Avignoun in Mistralian norm) is a French commune in sootheastren Fraunce in the depairtment o the Vaucluse bordered bi the left bank o the Rhône river. O the 94,787 inhabitants o the ceety on 1 Januar 2010, 12,000 live in the auncient toun centre surroondit bi its medieval ramparts.

Aften referred tae as the "Ceety o Papes" acause o the presence o papes an antipapes frae 1309 tae 1423 durin the Catholic schism, it is currently the lairgest ceety an caipital o the département o Vaucluse. This is ane o the few French ceeties tae hae preservit its ramparts, its historic centre, the palace o the popes, Rocher des Doms, an the brig o Avignon. It wis classifeed a Warld Heritage Steid bi UNESCO unner the criteria I, II an IV.

As a showcase o airts an cultur, the fame o its annual theatre festival, kent as the Festival o Avignon, haes far exceedit the French borders.

Internaitional relations

See an aw: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Fraunce

Twin touns – Sister ceeties

Avignon is twinned wi:

Colchester, Unitit Kinrick Diourbel, Senegal Guanajuato, Mexico

New Haven, Unitit States Siena, Italy Tarragona, Spain

Tortosa, Spain Wetzlar, Germany Wichita, Unitit States

References

Notes

• INSEE

Freemit airtins

• Tourist office wabsteid
• Ceety council wabsteid
• Avignon theater festival wabsteid