Walking routes, day plans, and curated itineraries for exploring Avignon
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Ask this Avignon local for one day trip and the answer is always Arles. A short train ride delivers you into one of the most charming towns in Provence - Roman arenas, Van Gogh's streets, an unbeatable market, and the famous light that has drawn painters and photographers for centuries. Here's how to do it properly.
Provence was the first Roman province outside Italy, and the monuments they left behind are among the finest anywhere - some of them a short train ride from Avignon. A local's honest guide to the Roman theatres, arenas, temples and aqueducts worth your time, which need a car, and which one quietly beats them all.
One day in Avignon? You can see the very best of it - if you walk it in the right order. Here's exactly how a local would spend the perfect day, hour by hour, on a single smart loop with no backtracking.
No cigales, no cold pastis in the shade of a plane tree - but a sunlit, tourist-free Avignon that locals quietly treasure. A resident's honest guide to the city in its quietest, most authentic season.
Why you should stop hotel-hopping and use Avignon as your home base for all of Provence. A local's honest guide to the best day trips, from Roman wonders and mountain villages to wine country and the beach.
