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it
offers to visitors multiple sources of attractions.in painting, many
artists often expressed themselves thanks to religion, banking
patronage, or rich merchant sponsoring.
the
pope officials, working for the palace, largely contributed to the
artistic enrichment of the city.
but,
as usual, the occupant drove off the occupied, therefore aristocratic
houses, where requisitioned for the church personalities. |
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others were built outside the over populated town, cardinals looking
for the countryside’s calm, some of them established in
villeneuve-lez-avignon, on the other side of the rhône river, next to
the pont saint bénezet “ le pont d’avignon”.
today these restored habitations are open for you, to admire most of
the city of pope’s masterpieces of work. |
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