Planning
How to Visit Avignon: A First-Timer's Plan for the City and the Day Out
Arriving by train, what the monuments charge and when they open, a day inside the walls on foot, and how to choose the day out of town.
Avignon Travel Blog
Short answers to the questions people ask before a few days in Avignon. What does the palace cost? Can the children come? Wine or villages for the day out? Planning an Avignon tour? The fares sit side by side there.
Start with the first-timer's plan if you have never been, then the room-by-room walk through the popes' palace. The facts post covers the popes, the bridge and the year the old town joined the World Heritage List. The family post sorts the days by age, and the last one weighs a wine day against a villages day. Longer planning pieces are in the guides.
Inside the walls
Inside the Papal Palace of Avignon, Room by Room
The courtyards, the great halls, the painted rooms where cameras stay down, and the rooms the new 2026 route opens for the first time.
Facts
Avignon Facts: Popes, a Broken Bridge and a World Heritage Year
The nine popes of the 14th century, the year the first one came, a bridge that stops mid-river, a wine law from 1936 and a Roman aqueduct nearly 48.77 m high.
Families
Avignon with Kids: Ages, Prices and the Days That Suit a Family
Free under 10 at the monuments, the youngest age each kind of day takes, pushchairs on the cobbles, the bridge lift, and a July afternoon's heat.
Comparison
A Wine Day or a Villages Day from Avignon: Which One to Book
Châteauneuf-du-Pape against the Luberon: hours on the road, what each fare carries, who can come, and which suits a first visit.
The practical answers are in the visitor guide and the FAQs, and every tour is compared on Avignon Tours.