Cloitre Saint-Louis Hotel

An 18-hole course on the outskirts of Avignon. The complex includes a hotel, driving green, putting green, pro shop and lessons.

Yoga classes, workshops and retreats - the Manolaya Yoga Centre offers all things yoga.

You will discover the city's most beautiful sites: the Popes Palace, classified as worldwide heritage by the UNESCO, the "Rochers des Doms", the old medieval streets and shopping areas, the town's picturesque quarters, and not to forget the famous "Pont d'Avignon"

This company offers privately guided tours in Provence, including sightseeing tours, lavender tours, multi-day trips, Luberon private tours, wine tours, cruisers private tours, cooking class tour and "Secret Provence".

This company offers several forms of discovery and progress to practise free fall. Whether you want to make your first parachute jump or move up the discipline, you will find all the necessary information and guidance.

This company offers all kinds of activities, from climbing and pot-holing to canyoning, canoeing, kayaking, hiking and via ferrata.

Located right in the centre of Avignon on a well known shopping street is La Cour d'Honneur.

This small restaurant is on the Rue Peyrollerie, a winding alley just off the Place St Pierre. It is a great option for vegetarians, offering a wide variety of cheese dishes and salads but there are also fish dishes available.

This is a popular place with both locals and travellers. It has a small cosy interior so if you want to dine there, best to get there earlier rather than later.

Situated in a vaulted room by the beautiful cloister of a 15th-century monastery, this restaurant serves refined traditional French cuisine. They also have a carefully selected wine list.

In each of his dishes, Philippe Boucher places Provence centre stage. Thanks to different associations of spices and carefully selected products, he offers a regional and gourmet menu. 

A grand and luxurious dining room with a beautiful garden terrace and gourmet dishes are offered at this Michelin-starred restaurant.

The Ajmi has played host to numerous talented international Jazz artists, and the Ajmi is classed as one of the top 3 jazz venues in France and is located in the heart of Avignon next to the beautiful Palais des Papes.

With a varied musical line-up, Bokao's combines good fun and great music.

Small wine bar situated in one of the cobbled streets of Avignon that hosts regular market stalls.

The Collection Lambert is a wonderful gallery featuring modern art from the 1960's.

Located in a gorgeous 18th century building int eh centre of Avignon, this museum's mission is to share with the public the wonderful collection of paintings and furniture inherited from the couturier Jacques Doucet (1853-1929).

This museum owes its growth to the naturalist Esprit Requien (1758-1851), who was the most famous of Avignon scientists of his time. From an old middle class family, he devoted himself early to botany. By age 18, he is active in the Botanical Garden of the city of Avignon and is a herbarium that quickly acquired great importance.

The Calvet Museum today houses works of art from the 16th to 20th century, and holds innumerable collections donated or bequeathed by patrons, art lovers and collectors, such as Baron de Montfaucon, Esprit Requien, Noël Biret, the Montlaur family, and recently Marcel Puech.

This magnificent building was built for Pope Benedict III in 1335 as a residence and a 'grand project'. It's the largest Gothic palace in the world (at 15,000 square metres) and is in the top ten most visited monuments in France (over 650,000 visitors per year).

With the arrival of French pope Clement V, Avignon was transformed into a religious and artistic centre. The grand Notre Dame cathedral has existed since the twelfth century, but the current building has been subjected to a number of alterations. The eye-catching gold statue of the Virgin Lady on the top of the tower is six metres in height and weighs 4,500 pounds.

Just across the Rhône river from Avignon, Villeneuve les Avignon offers a quieter place to base yourself but still be only a stone's throw from Avignon.

Caumont sur Durance lies midway between Avignon and Cavaillon on a small plain near the Durance river. 

Châteauneuf du Pape lies in the heart of the Vaucluse region, 19km to the north of Avignon and 10km south of Orange. It is of course, most famous for the wine it produces, but the village itself is also worth a trip, with its pretty medieval lanes and ruined castle.

Nestled in the hills of Les Alpilles, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is a stylish town much favoured by the creative Parisien set. Its centre is full of narrow medieval alleyways, with fountains and shady squares and wonderful buildings.

Velleron is a small town with around 3,000 inhabitants and can be found around 25km to the east of Avignon, not far from Isle sur la Sorgue. 

Just 1km south of St. Rémy-de-Provence, you can enter a world more than 2,000 years old. Here the Celtic-Ligurians, Greeks and later, the Romans, settled down in a strategic valley and built and rebuilt a town that was known as Glanum.