Rocher des Doms

The Rocher des Doms is a rocky outcrop on the left bank of the Rhone that served as a shelter for the founding and development of the city of Avignon . It was set up as a public garden.

history

A 17th-century North African historian published an old chronicle that can be dated to 725 and shows that the urban area of ​​Avignon was limited to the Rocher des Doms at that time.

Statues in the Jardin des Doms

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  Capetian Millennium

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  Jean Althen

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  Félix Gras

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  Paul Saïn

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  Paul Vayson

literature

• Jules Courtet: Dictionnaire géographique, géologique, historique, archéologique et biographique du département du Vaucluse , Avignon, 1876.

Web links

Commons : Jardin des doms  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The monuments of Avignon - The Rocher des Doms

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Al Maqqari : Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature des Arabes en Espagne par al-Makkari , published by Reinhart Dozy , G. Dugat, L. Krehl and W. Wright, Leiden (1855–1861), Reprint Amsterdam, 1967.