Avignon Self Guided City Tour of Popes, Poets and Assassins

Avignon, France
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Duration2h - 4h
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LanguagesGerman, Russian, Portuguese, English, Italian, Polish, French, Dutch, Spanish
Private tourOnly your group will participate

Overview

A shepherd boy walked out of the mountains, told Avignon that God wanted him to build a bridge across the Rhône, then lifted a boulder thirty men couldn't move to prove it. Seven hundred years ago, someone decided Rome was too dangerous to be pope in, and moved the entire headquarters of Western Christianity here.
This self-guided audio walking tour of Avignon tells its sharpest stories. Over roughly 4 km and 20 stops, played on your phone as you walk, you'll meet the pope who bought the city from a queen just tried for murder, a poet undone by one glance in a church, and a marshal a mob lynched over a lie.
Go at your own pace. No fixed start time, no group to keep up with, offline access, pause and resume whenever you like.
Over 25,000 travelers have used our self-guided tours, and this Avignon audio tour comes with a full refund guarantee. Bring headphones and start whenever you're ready.

What's included

  • 100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.
  • Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded.
  • Audio and written guide included
  • 1 year access to audio on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like.
  • Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation.
  • Any physical devices or headphones
  • Human tour guide at location

What to expect

  1. Pont Saint-Benezet
    Pass by
    Stand before four arches reaching into the river and stopping, and learn the story of the shepherd boy behind them
  2. Rocher des Doms
    10m
    Meet the escaped slave who smuggled a fortune past a death sentence, hidden inside his walking staff
  3. Musee du Petit Palais
    10m
    Step into a cardinal's fortified home, then hear about the thief who out-catalogued the museums he robbed
  4. Cathedrale Notre-Dame des Doms
    15m
    Look up at a gilded Virgin who watched the river, above the tomb of a gold-making pope
  5. Palais des Papes
    Pass by
    Face the largest Gothic palace in Europe, bought from a queen just tried for her husband's murder
  6. Saint-Etienne
    8m
    Spot the tiny hot-air balloons on the window sills, and the fireside moment they quietly commemorate
  7. Place Crillon
    10m
    Cross the square where a false rumor turned a crowd into a marshal's executioners in under an hour
  8. Place de l'Horloge
    8m
    Pause in Avignon's biggest square, where a hidden medieval clock tower keeps working behind the town hall
  9. Basilique Saint Pierre
    12m
    Examine walnut doors carved five centuries ago, and the boy cardinal whose relics they guard
  10. Avignon Les Halles
    10m
    Taste the pink chocolate thistle named for the popes, sold behind a market's living garden wall
  11. 8m
    Meet the escaped slave who smuggled a forbidden seed and quietly turned Provence blood-red.
  12. Hotel des Monnaies
    7m
    Decode the eagles and dragons on the one facade in Avignon that refuses to stay modest.
  13. Eglise Saint-Agricol
    8m
    Spot the silver stork above the door, then hear which plague it was summoned to end.
  14. Palais du Roure
    8m
    Trace the mulberry tree carved above the door to a fortune, and a language nearly lost.
  15. 7m
    ncounter the last tower of warrior-monks who inherited a fallen order's confiscated wealth.
  16. 9m
    Uncover where a poet's single glance reshaped European love poetry, and why a king reopened her grave.
  17. 7m
    Slip through a small door to where two brothers rowed a boat straight to the altar.
  18. Rue Des Teinturiers
    8m
    Follow the canal and its old waterwheels down the street that stained every worker's hands red.

Meeting and pickup

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Additional information

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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