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The Rocher des Doms is the limestone outcrop from which the whole of Avignon grew. People have lived on this defensible height since the Neolithic age, and the Romans later made it their stronghold above the river long before the popes arrived. For most of its history a bare crag, it was transformed into a public garden from the 1830s, and during the Second Empire around the 1860s it gained reservoirs, an ornamental pond and statues of local heroes set among the trees. Rising about thirty metres above the Rhône, its terraces offer the finest panorama in the city, taking in the twin channels of the river, the surviving arches of the Pont Saint-Bénézet, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon with its Fort Saint-André, and on a clear day the distant summit of Mont Ventoux.
Wissenswertes
- 1830 year — The rocky outcrop was laid out as a public garden in the 1830s
- 1860 year — Reservoirs, a pond and statues were added under the Second Empire
- 30 metres — The garden rises about thirty metres above the Rhône
📍 Montée des Moulins, 84000, Avignon