The Chaterhouse, Villeneuve lez Avignon
€8.00
Free with the Pass!
Founded by Pope Innocent VI in 1356, whose tomb it houses, the Charterhouse is one of the largest monasteries of the Carthusian order.
Length of visit: approx. 1 hour
Horaires d'ouverture
8 September to mid-April, Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm (Duration of the visit 1H)
Mid-April to mid-October
Tuesday to Sunday from 9.30am to 6.30pm
July and August
daily from 9.30am to 6.30pm
Opening Mondays in July and August and Mondays in Easter and Pentecost
Closed on 1 January, 1 May, 1 and 11 November, 25 December and exceptionally on 22 September 2026 .
Last entry: 30 minutes before closing
For the Bookshop: From 11am to the closing of the monument. Closed Mondays and Sundays
For the library Café: Tuesday to Saturday from 1:30 p.m. to the closing of the monument. From April to September, coffee is also open on Sunday
Accessibility
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Accepted animals
Our friends animals are allowed. They must be kept on a leash.
Access conditions
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Access by bike
- Brand "Home Bike"
- In Velopop': self-service bicycles from the Grand Avignon, Villeneuve station near the Tourist Office
- With your own bike: bike racks are installed in the entrance alley of the Chartreuse
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Access by bus
From 20 June to 1 September from 10am, free shuttle from the Piot relay car park to the historic centre of Villeneuve Lez Avignon and the tourist sites (Stop La Chartreuse). Find the schedules by clicking on the following linkhttps://www.orizo.fr/se-deplacer/timetables/depalets-timetables-ete-2024
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Accès voiture
- From the A7, take the exit "Avignon Nord", follow Avignon Centre and then Villeneuve lez Avignon, crossing the bridge " Pont Daladier" and turn right towards Villeneuve Centre. Continue about 1 km then at the roundabout straight around Fort Saint-André until you reach the tricolor fire. The parking lot of La Chartreuse (3) is on your left.
- From the A9, take the exit "Remoulins" follow Avignon then Villeneuve lez Avignon
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Pedestrian access
35 min from the gate of the Oulle (centre of Avignon) to the Chartreuse
Exhibition: “The Great River”
From 21 June to 20 September 2026
Free
At the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc presents *Le Grand Fleuve*, an exhibition where sound becomes a living substance.
In the *bugade* (a laundry room, but also a place of care and forced confinement), the eye is first drawn to the space itself. The walls, the volumes, the charred prison door, left there, striking. The architecture already bears layers of history, physical, visible, scar-like traces.
It is from this point that Abonnenc’s work unfolds. For over twenty years, the artist has been exploring the legacies of colonialism, diasporic memories, and forms of creolization. Here, he extends this research through a unique sonic immersion, fueled by recordings made at the very heart of the site: voices, echoes, breaths, acoustic traces. With singer Bruno Bonhoure, he records fragments in the bugade and in other spaces of the Chartreuse, such as the chapter house, turning the site into a true sounding board, an amplifier.
58, rue de la République
30400 Villeneuve Lez Avignon