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Avignon + Lavender’s Blue

Finding You in the Mystery

Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

It’s known as the Golden Triangle of Roman Cities: Avignon, Arles and Nîmes. Lavender’s Blue are in Avignon, favoured of late by the Obama family, less late by the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and rather less late again, by Charles Dickens. The author wrote in Pictures from Italy, “There lay before us, that same afternoon, the broken bridge of Avignon, and all the city baking in the sun; yet with an under-done-pie-crust, battlemented wall, that never will be brown, though it bake for centuries.”

Musee Calvet Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Town Centre Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Steeple Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Papal Palace Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Papal Palace Tower Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Papal Palace Walls Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Church Rosette Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Church Door Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

City Walls Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Wall Ruins Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Battlements Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Ramparts Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Historic Walls Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Crucifix Papal Palace Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Crucifix Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Cross Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley

Church Dome Avignon © Lavender's Blue Stuart Blakley