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Avignon
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With its world-famous performing arts festival, Europe's largest Gothic palace, outstanding Côtes du Rhône wine, a nursery rhyme bridge and a historic walled city -- a pocket of which falls under UNESCO World Heritage protection -- it is understandable why wealthy Avignon comes across as smugger than smug.
The city has it all: historic treasures, a clutch of interesting museums, great dining and a cutting-edge bar and cafe scene kept on its toes by a substantial student population.
Festival d'Avignon
The world-famous Festival d'Avignon, founded in 1947, is held each year in July. it attracts hundreds of actors, dancers, musicians and other artists who perform some 300 shows a day in every imaginable venue.
Avignon's celebration of the region' first Côtes du Rhône wines of the year, the Féte des Côtes du Rhône Primeurs in mid-November, is a great excuse to drink.
