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The Rue des Teinturiers, the Street of the Dyers, is the most atmospheric corner of Avignon and a gentle place to end a walk. A branch of the River Sorgue runs in the open alongside the cobbles, crossed by little footbridges and shaded by a line of tall plane trees. For centuries this was the city's industrial heart, where the water powered mills that dyed and printed the bright patterned cottons known as indiennes. Great wooden waterwheels turned the machinery, and at the trade's height more than twenty of them churned along the stream. Four survive today, green with moss and still slowly turning, reminders of the vanished workshops. Now the street is lined with cafes, artists' studios and small theatres, and its shady, slightly bohemian air makes it a favourite with locals.
Fatti principali
- 1817 year — By 1817 more than twenty waterwheels, around twenty three in all, turned along the canal to power the dyeing and printing workshops.
- 4 waterwheels — Only four of the old wheels remain today, still turning slowly in the Sorgue beside the cobbled street.
- 19 century — The fabric trade that gave the street its name flourished from the fourteenth century until it faded in the nineteenth.
📍 Rue des Teinturiers 35, 84000, Avignon