Pont d'Avignon St. Benezet
by Hugh Smith
Title
Pont d'Avignon St. Benezet
Artist
Hugh Smith
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
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The bridge at Avignon spans the Rhone between Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and Avignon and was built between 1177 and 1185. This early bridge was destroyed forty years later during the Albigensian Crusade when Louis VIII of France laid siege to Avignon. The bridge was rebuilt with 22 stone arches. It was very costly to maintain as the arches tended to collapse when the Rhone flooded. Eventually in the middle of the 17th century the bridge was abandoned. The four surviving arches on the bank of the Rhone are believed to have been built in around 1345 by Pope Clement VI during the Avignon Papacy.
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February 27th, 2016
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