Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Palais des Papes
Avignon, Vaucluse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Le palais des Papes : classement par liste de 1840
- Protection dates
- 1840 : classé MH
- Type
- palais
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Architect or builder
- Martini Simone (peintre), Giovanetti Matteo (peintre)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Avignon
- Département
- Vaucluse
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.95071, 4.80773
- Mérimée reference
- PA00081941
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1575 map "Vol II (13) Avignon." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Palais élevé au 14e siècle quand la ville était siège de la papauté.
English translation
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History
Palace erected in the 14th century when the city was the seat of the papacy.
Nearby in the register
- Hôtel Adhémar de Cransac (voir aussi Hôtel Madon de Châteaublanc)hôtelunder 1 mi
- Hôtel Pamardhôtelunder 1 mi
- Hôtel Madon de Chateaublanc (voir aussi Hôtel Adhémar de Cransac)hôtelunder 1 mi
- Arcades romainessite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.