Travel expert Rick Steves has highlighted a gorgeous French city on the river for eager tourists, equating visiting it to a ...

Avignon is a city that proudly wears its scars. TRAVELBOOK author Frank Lehmann visited and reveals why the rugged sister of Aix-en-Provence tells the better stories. Southern France is a wonderful ...

This week on arts24, Eve Jackson is in the studio while our reporter Olivia Salazar-Winspear is on the ground at one of the world’s most iconic theatre gatherings – the Avignon Festival in southern ...

"Le Procès Pelicot," directed by Milo Rau, at the Avignon Festival, July 18, 2025. CHRISTOPHE RAYNAUD DE LAGE/FESTIVAL D’AVIGNON Four hours of breathless intensity. Rarely have we witnessed such focus ...

A few nights before the French took their final vote in this summer’s snap parliamentary election, Tiago Rodrigues, the director of the Festival d’Avignon, staged an all-night, ad-hoc rally against ...

With striking premieres in the main program and enchanting discoveries on the supplementary Fringe, the eminent event in European theater is flourishing after some difficult years. By Laura Cappelle ...

A feminist collective, the Amazons of Avignon, has been plastering the walls of the city with testimony from the trial of the 51 men who were convicted in the Gisèle Pelicot rape case. By Catherine ...

In the sun-dappled south of France, the picturesque city of Avignon was once the seat of power for the Catholic Church and the home of popes fleeing the political pressures of Rome. Built on the banks ...