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The roman Bridge of Avignon, declared patrimony of humanity from Unesco.

Avignon is one of the more important city of the Provenza, a city from the ancient origins much that its period of greater splendor from 1309 has seen, when Clement French Pope V refused the center of Rome, till 1377, when Gregorio XI returned definitively to Rome. A enough short period, but that it has left signs in the historical and artistic patrimony of the city, first of all the Palace of the Papi and the numerous Churches, to whose embellishment contributed the most known artists of the age.
Avignon was however an important city already in the century precedence, entire fortified, in a position that we could define strategic and that after the construction of the bridge on the Rodano (the bridge Saint Benézet), become an obliged passage for those who they had to cross the river. It puts into effect them four arches and the Nail head Saint Benézet is what they remain of a bridge that in origin of it arches of it had 22 and it had a length of approximately 900 meters.

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