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Popes' Palace

Museums & Monuments

Discover the monumental residence of the 14th-century pontiffs, listed as a Unesco World Heritage site since 1995 and the largest building of its kind in the Gothic period !

€12.00 Free with the Pass!

Contact

Place du palais
84000 Avignon

+33 432 74 32 74
officetourisme@avignon-tourisme.com

With your Avignon city Pass, proceed to the pre-paid ticket line

  •  Tour duration: approx. 1h30/2h00
  •  The Pontifical Gardens are not included in this ticket.
  •  Pets are not allowed on the tour (except guide dogs)
  •  No dragone (histopad cord)
  •  Due to a large number of steps, the monument is not accessible to people with reduced mobility.
  • The rooms closed to visitors are those of the chamberlain and the notary

// IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Due to the preparation of numerous cultural events, and in order to preserve your experience of the monument, the Palais des Papes is adapting your tour itinerary.
From May 05 to 29, visitors will enter and leave via the Benedict XII gardens, located at the rear of the monument. During this period, we will not be able to distribute histopad tablets, nor to offer you our usual lockers or baby-carrier services. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Horaires d'ouverture

Every day 

  • January 6 to February 7: 10am-5pm
  • February 8 to 28: 10am-6pm
  • March 1 to November 2: 9am-7pm
  • November 3 to December 19: 10am-5pm
  • December 20 to 31: 10am-6pm

Please note
-> The Palais will be closed to visitors on May 21 from 2pm, all day on May 22 and until 12pm on May 23. 
-> Last access 1 hour before closing time to the Palais des Papes 

Accessibility

  • Pets are not allowed on the tour, except guide dogs
  • Histopad with hearing-impaired function
  • The Palais des Papes is not accessible to people with reduced mobility, due to a large number of steps. However, for those with mobility difficulties, two specially-designed areas are available along the tour route. Let yourself be guided by your histopad, and discover all the rooms that make up the rest of the tour at your own pace.  
  • Changing rooms are available for strollers. Baby carriers available in 3 sizes: 2 ventral for babies up to 10 kgs and 1 dorsal for babies up to 15 kgs 

Access conditions

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    How can I park my bike safely to visit the Palais des Papes?

    1. Check in at the Parking du Palais des Papes reception desk: on Place du Palais, opposite Rue Vieille Poste.
    2. I park my bike in a fully secure storage area - just a stone's throw away, on rue de la Juiverie.
    3. I enjoy my visits !

    Services + Bike:

    1. Secure parking at the Parking du Palais
    2. Open-air bicycle racks located 100m from the monument
    3. Repair kit + Pump
    4. Possibility of recharging VAE batteries
    5. Consultation and downloading in the monument, of documentation on the various bike routes in and around Avignon 
  • Palais des Papes parking lot nearby

Additional information

Palace of the Popes

The monumental residence of the 14th-century pontiffs, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the largest Gothic palace in the world (15,000 m2 of floor space, equivalent to the volume of 4 Gothic cathedrals).

The visitor can see over 20 rooms, scenes of historic events, in particular the pope’s private chambers and the frescoes painted by the Italian artist Matteo Giovannetti. The Popes’ Palace also offers the visitor continuous cultural activities throughout the year.

The ticket includes the visit of the Palace of the Popes as well as the histopad which is a touch pad that allows to live  a temporal immersion in the major parts of the monument, entirely re-constituted as they could be in the 14th century.

IMPORTANT: 

Each visitor must go to the line for pre-paid tickets and present their Avignon City Pass or Avignon City Pass.  

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Exhibition Cosmos Othoniel or the ghosts of love

From 28 Jun 2025 to 4 Jan 2026

Free

Jean-Michel Othoniel has chosen “Le Canzonière de Pétrarque” as the theme for his exhibition, creating a poetic world dominated by infinite, concise, abstract and marvellous reasoning. The exhibition unfolds like a long sonnet, an adventure punctuated by stations and amorous pilgrimages, all the while leaving room for humor.
A constellation of works
The “OTHONIEL COSMOS or the Ghosts of Love” exhibition has been conceived as a constellation in which each place mutually enriches the other. The Palais des Papes is the sun, around which gravitate the Place du Palais, the Petit Palais-Louvre museum in Avignon, the Pont d'Avignon, the Musée Calvet, the Museum Requien, the Couvent Sainte Claire, a direct tribute to Petrarch (where he fell in love), the new Pommer baths museum and the Collection Lambert.
A poetic journey
The idea of a procession is at the heart of this exhibition. Visitors are invited to navigate from one museum to the next, following the “navigators' doors” created by the artist for each location. These abstract sculptures evoke navigators' crosses, maps of the sky and the movement of stars.
Each museum, each space, becomes a stage in a loving pilgrimage where the past is reinvented under the gaze of a visionary artist.

Palais des Papes
Place du Palais des Papes
84000 Avignon
France

+33 432 74 32 74
officetourisme@avignon-tourisme.com