Avignon in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Avignon covers 13 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Avignon rewards a detour.

The Avignon route at a glance

Day 1

Day 1 covers 7 stops over about 0.6 km as the crow flies, from Musée du Petit Palais to Remparts d'Avignon. ≈ 0.6 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Musée du Petit Palais: A museum of Italian medieval and Renaissance painting in a former cardinals' and bishops' palace on Place du Palais, home to the Louvre's Campana collection and a Botticelli. 0.2 km to the next stop
2. Rocher des Doms: The limestone bluff and English-style garden at the top of Avignon, the city's original settlement site, with sweeping Rhone panoramas, a swan pond and shaded walks above the palace. 0.1 km to the next stop
3. Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms: Avignon's mainly Romanesque cathedral, built in the 12th century beside the Palais des Papes and crowned since 1859 by a huge gilded statue of the Virgin Mary. 0.1 km to the next stop
4. Place du Palais: The vast open forecourt below the Palais des Papes, ringed by the palace, the Petit Palais, the cathedral and the Baroque Hotel des Monnaies, and the usual first stop. 0.1 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Palais des Papes: The vast Gothic palace-fortress where seven popes ruled Western Christianity through the 14th century, often called the largest Gothic palace in Europe and the centrepiece of Avignon's UNESCO listing. 0.2 km to the next stop
2. Place de l'Horloge: Avignon's lively central square, ringed by cafe terraces, a carousel, the neoclassical town hall and opera, and crowned by a medieval clock tower with striking jacquemart figures. 0.1 km to the next stop
3. Remparts d'Avignon: Avignon's near-complete ring of medieval city walls encircling the old town, about 4.3 kilometres long, built by the popes from 1357 and heavily restored by Viollet-le-Duc.

Day 2

Day 2 covers 6 stops over about 3 km as the crow flies, from Les Halles d'Avignon to Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. ≈ 3 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Les Halles d'Avignon: Avignon's covered food market on Place Pie, some forty stalls of Provencal produce behind a striking 2005 living wall by botanist Patrick Blanc; a market has stood here since 1859. 0.3 km to the next stop
2. Rue des Teinturiers: A cobbled, tree-shaded street beside a branch of the Sorgue, once Avignon's dyeing quarter, where four of a former two-dozen waterwheels still turn in the canal. 0.4 km to the next stop
3. Musée Calvet: Avignon's principal fine-arts museum, born from a doctor's 1810 bequest and set in an 18th-century mansion, its eclectic rooms spanning Egyptian antiquities to modern French painting. 0.6 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Pont Saint-Bénézet: The ruined medieval bridge of the nursery song, now only four arches reaching partway across the Rhone, with a chapel on one pier and a founding legend. 0.8 km to the next stop
2. Île de la Barthelasse: The long green island in the Rhone facing Avignon, source of the classic view of bridge, rock and palace, and home of the 'sous le pont' dancing tradition. 0.9 km to the next stop
3. Villeneuve-lès-Avignon: Across the Rhone in the Gard, the cardinals' town facing Avignon, holding Fort Saint-Andre, the Tour Philippe le Bel and the Chartreuse founded by Pope Innocent VI in 1356.

Distances are straight-line between stops; streets add a little.

Where the route eats

Food and market stops on the Avignon tour, each with its own story in the app:

• Les Halles d'Avignon: Avignon's covered food market on Place Pie, some forty stalls of Provencal produce behind a striking 2005 living wall by botanist Patrick Blanc; a market has stood here since 1859.

Updated: September 28, 2026

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