Cavaillon Synagogue

Notre-Dame de Sénanque Abbey is a Cistercian monastery founded in 1148, and became an abbey in 1150. In 1544, during the Wars of Religion, monks were hanged and the monastery was burnt down by the Waldensians and the convent building destroyed. At the end of the 17th century, there were only two monks left in Senanque. After losing its original vocation, the abbey was bought by the abbot of Lérins, Dom Barnouin, in 1857. It was only in 1926 that convent life resumed uninterruptedly in Sénanque, now the priory of Lérins Abbey. The monastery is known for the production of the liqueur of Sénacole, from 19 plants that flower in the Provencal valley of the abbey of Sénanque.

The Synagogue in Avignon is a Sephardi synagogue built in 1849 by architects Duchesne and Joseph-Auguste Joffroy. This Neo-Classical stone building still serves as a synagogue.

It dates from 1150 and was enlarged in the 14th and 17th centuries by side chapels. As early as 1336, Giacomo Stefaneschi, the Cardinal of St. George, commissioned Simone Martini - the most Gothic of Italian painters, considered the leader of the School of Siena - to paint frescos on the porch of Notre-Dame-des-Doms. Martini, who was Duccio de Buoninsegna's pupil, comes with his wife Giovanna and brother Donat. The frescoes were completed before the death of the commissioner in 1343. Under Benedict XIII, Avignon was under siege. Despite the surveillance to which he was subjected, the Pontiff managed to leave the palace and his town of residence on March 11, 1403, after a trying five-year siege. If Benedict XIII never returned to Avignon again, he had left his nephews, Antonio de Luna as rector of the Comtat Venaissin, and Rodrigo. He and his Catalans settled in the pontifical palace. On Tuesday, January 27, 1405, at Vespers time, the pyramidal bell tower of Notre-Dame des Doms collapsed and crushed the ancient baptistery dedicated to Saint John in its fall. The Catalans were accused of this action and took the opportunity to establish a platform on these ruins to install their artillery.