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About the City

Avignon is one of the major cities of Provence, in Southern France. It is the main city of the department of Vaucluse, and is located on the banks of the Rhone river. It had an estimated mid-2004 population of 89,300 in the city itself and a population of 290,466 in the metropolitan area at the 1999 census.

The city is well known for its Palais des Papes (Palace of the Popes), where several popes and antipopes lived from the early 14th to early 15th centuries. The palace is the world’s largest Gothic edifice.