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Place de l'Horloge, the Square of the Clock, is where Avignon comes to meet, eat and watch the world go by. Laid out over the forum of the Roman town, it opens out just south of the papal quarter and fills each evening with the clatter of cafe terraces and the music of street performers. Two grand nineteenth-century buildings face the square. The Hotel de Ville, the city hall, carries a neoclassical front opened under Napoleon the Third, but rising behind it is the far older Gothic clock tower, the horloge that gives the square its name, crowned by a mechanical Jacquemart figure that strikes the hours. Beside it stands the Opera, its colonnaded facade framing one end of the square. During the summer theatre festival this is the beating centre of the city.
Fatti principali
- 1856 year — The neoclassical facade of the Hotel de Ville, designed by Leon Feuchere, was officially opened by Napoleon the Third in 1856.
- 1847 year — The present opera house was rebuilt in 1846 and 1847 by Theodore Charpentier and Leon Feuchere after fire destroyed the earlier theatre of 1825.
- 2 landmark buildings — Two grand facades frame the square, the city hall with its medieval clock tower and the columned opera house beside it.
📍 Place de l'Horloge 19, 84000, Avignon