Pont d Avignon - Avignon - France
The Pont d Avignon or Pont Saint-Benezet; and the city of Avignon in the department of Vaucluse on the left bank of the Rhone River. it was the residence of the popes during their exile from Rome. Between 1309 and 1377, seven successive popes resided in Avignon and in 1348 Pope Clement VI bought the town from Joanna I of Naples. Papal control persisted until 1791.
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