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 ...

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 ...

Under the title "Cosmos or The Spirits of Love", French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel presents a ten-meter-high astrolabe on Avignon’s Place de l'Horloge as part of his performance in the city’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man has been shot dead by police after threatening people with a handgun in a city in southern France. The man was shot dead in Montfavet, a district in the city of Avignon, on Thursday, police said ...