![]() ![]() ![]() In the first two decades of the 13th century the town added a second wall with a second moat outside the earlier wall. There are no surviving records of when the first city wall was built but historians have suggested dates between 10. A bridge was built across the Rhône, the Pont Saint-Bénézet whose construction is traditionally dated to between 11. In the 12th century the town enjoyed a degree of independence and became very prosperous. There are now 15 vehicular entrances and 11 pedestrian entrances.Ī 17th century map showing the two arches of the Portail Magnanen at the junction of the Rue du Portail Magnanen and the Rue des Lices. There were originally twelve gates controlling access to the city but this number was reduced to seven when the fortifications were modified between 14. The walls stretch for 4.3 km (2.7 mi) and enclose an area of 150 ha (370 acres). The walls took nearly 20 years to complete. From the 1350s during the Hundred Years' War the town became vulnerable to pillage by marauding bands of mercenaries and in 1357 under Innocent VI, the fifth Avignon pope, work began on the construction of new set of city walls to enclose the expanded town. In 1309 Pope Clement V moved to Avignon and under the papacy the town expanded outside the limits of the earlier city walls. Although these early walls have not survived, their path is preserved in the street plan of the city. Beginning in around 1231, the defences were rebuilt. During the Albigensian Crusade the town sided with the Count of Toulouse, Raymond VII but in 1226, after a three-month siege by Louis VIII of France, Avignon capitulated and was forced to dismantle the walls and fill in the moats. The walls replaced an earlier double set of defensive walls that had been completed in the first two decades of the 13th century. They were originally built in the 14th century during the Avignon papacy and have been continually rebuilt and repaired throughout their subsequent history. The walls of Avignon (French: Les Remparts d'Avignon) are a series of defensive stone walls that surround the city of Avignon in the south of France. ![]()
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