PONT D'AVIGNON SAINT BENEZET

  The bridge of Avignon is one of the most famous monuments in the world, and the famous song that helped a lot, since it is sung by children of all countries. But if this bridge is famous, his story is less so. Emblematic site in the history of Avignon, the Saint-Benezet bridge built from the twelfth century, was several tmes destroyed by spates on the Rhône Ruiver, before being rebuilt and finally abandonned in the 17th Century, before being rebuilt and finally left the state in the seventeenth century.