Provence-Alpes-Cote d`Azur

Avignon is a city in southern France, situated on the left bank of the Rhône, in the département of Vaucluse, about 400 miles south-south-east of Paris, and 50 miles north-north-west of Marseille.

Back to 1,000 BC

While human settlements existed on the coast in the Stone Age, recorded history begins around 1,000 BC with the Ligurians.