An urban stroll, outside the city walls, to discover a district dating from the 20th century, today undergoing a complete metamorphosis and punctuated with points of interest.
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Avignon took a long time to emerge from its ramparts.
Until the end of the 1880th century (1890-XNUMX), the countryside died at the foot of the walls.
From the 18th century, but especially in the 19th century, the Avignon bourgeoisie had built beautiful residences, the “campagnes”. Large walls, a gate, an avenue of plane trees sometimes signal their presence.
Then the city grew, especially towards the south, in successive leaps.
At the beginning, everyone built their house as they saw fit along the paths and irrigation ditches of the market gardens, which explains the original plan of the southern districts with its tight network of East-West alleys and dead ends intersecting the major North-South axes: Sources, Arrrousaire, Saint-Ruf (former Via Agrippa, the Roman road from Lyon to Arles), Monclar.
A real city gradually took shape with the creation of circular boulevards. The first developed in sections, from 1890 to 1924 (Sixte Isnard, Jacques Monod, Jules Ferry).
Then urbanization literally exploded, from the 1950s, with reconstruction, the arrival of repatriates from Algeria and immigration. The new ring road (1970s) is the backbone. Inexorably the city spreads, devouring garden after garden, meadow after meadow to come and brush against
today the edge of the “Green Belt”.
This long history, because our neighborhoods have a history, can still be read by walking through them, with open eyes and an informed mind, which is what this walk invites you to do.
The description of the urban walk is available below.
Until the end of the 1880th century (1890-XNUMX), the countryside died at the foot of the walls.
From the 18th century, but especially in the 19th century, the Avignon bourgeoisie had built beautiful residences, the “campagnes”. Large walls, a gate, an avenue of plane trees sometimes signal their presence.
Then the city grew, especially towards the south, in successive leaps.
At the beginning, everyone built their house as they saw fit along the paths and irrigation ditches of the market gardens, which explains the original plan of the southern districts with its tight network of East-West alleys and dead ends intersecting the major North-South axes: Sources, Arrrousaire, Saint-Ruf (former Via Agrippa, the Roman road from Lyon to Arles), Monclar.
A real city gradually took shape with the creation of circular boulevards. The first developed in sections, from 1890 to 1924 (Sixte Isnard, Jacques Monod, Jules Ferry).
Then urbanization literally exploded, from the 1950s, with reconstruction, the arrival of repatriates from Algeria and immigration. The new ring road (1970s) is the backbone. Inexorably the city spreads, devouring garden after garden, meadow after meadow to come and brush against
today the edge of the “Green Belt”.
This long history, because our neighborhoods have a history, can still be read by walking through them, with open eyes and an informed mind, which is what this walk invites you to do.
The description of the urban walk is available below.