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Railway information / SNCF

Information and reservations
Phone: 3635 (Seven days a week, 07.00-22.00 only cost of your call)
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To make travelling by bus and train easier, the Southern Region is putting in place an exceptional scheme. Numerous lines will be available to get to Avignon during the day from a number of towns in the Vaucluse and the surrounding area. In the evening, trains will run until 11.30pm, making it easier to get home and stay in the surrounding area.
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• Gare Avignon Centre (Center railway station)
  Downtown Avignon Phone: 3635 (Seven days a week, 07am-10pm only cost of your call)

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• Gare Avignon TGV: 15 minutes away from downtown by car or 6 minutes away by train named “virgule”. Train ticket costs €1.70. Schedule : roughly every 30 minutes, check www.oui.sncf for more information gares-sncf/avignon-tgv

  You may also connect to Avignon TGV by bus (20-minutes ride, line 10, every 15 minutes, €1.40).orizo.fr

Coach station

5 avenue Monclar
Tel. +33 (0)4 90 82 07 35 / pemavignon.fr
International lines to Spain, Morocco, London, Praha, Brussels and Italy.

Orizo

tcra.fr / + 33 (0)4 32 74 18 32 

16 cities :Avignon, Caumont-sur-Durance, Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue, Jonquerettes, Le Pontet, Les Angles, Morières-lès-Avignon, Pujaut, Rochefort-du-Gard, Roquemaure, Sauveterre, Saze, Saint-Saturnin-lès-Avignon, Vedène, Velleron, Villeneuve lez Avignon.
The T1 tram line and bus lines C2, C3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 16, P1, and P2 run every day during the Festival until approximately 1:00 a.m. Please note that on some lines, partial terminus stops are in effect in the evening. The Allobus service will be extended until 1:30 a.m. starting July 4.

1,40€ one way ticket / Day Ticket 3,50€ / 48h Ticket 7€ / 10 one way tickets : 12,50€

Where to buy transport tickets?

• on your mobile with the Tixipass application

• at ticket distributors - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - at tram stations: St Chamand, Barbière, Les Sources, Trillade, Olivades, Jouveau, Place St Ruf, Arrousaire, Gare Centre and St Roch.

• at the main stops on the Chron'hop lines: C2 Newton Avignon Nord, Hôpital, and Place Thomas (Le Pontet) / C3 Maria Casarès, P+R Agroparc, and Mistral 7

• in the Orizo shop: 40, boulevard Saint-Roch à Avignon

• with the driver (payment in cash only) 

Intercity lines Vaucluse

zou.maregionsud.fr / 0 809 400 013
To come to Avignon: 2.60€ per ticket with the Vaucluse public transport network by bus (reduce price for 10 tickets). 
Departure from: Orange, Carpentras, Monteux, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Cavaillon, Apt.

Two regional express lines:
- LER 22 Avignon - Forcalquier - Manosque - Digne
- LER 23 Aix-en-Provence - Avignon

Think about carsharing!

• From A7 Highway :
  - From Lyon, take way-out Avignon Nord n°23, then follow RN7 to Avignon Centre
  - From Marseille, take way-out Avignon Sud n°24, then follow suivre RN7 to Avignon Centre

• From A9 Highway : take way-out Avignon n°22, then follow RN100

Taxi

Taxis Avignon 24h/24 : + 33 (0)4 90 82 20 20
Taxis Villeneuvois : +33 (0)4 90 25 88 88

Caution : In July, car access to Avginon downtown is forbidden from 12pm to 2am.

Parkings

Free parkings
linked to downtow with free shuttles : Orizo

• Parking de l'île Piot

• Parking des Italiens 

• Parking Courtine

• Amandier

Toll parkings

• Parking Indigo

• Parking Palais des papes

• Parking Jean-Jaurès

• Parking Mérindol

• Parking de l'Oratoire

• Parking des Halles

See the parkigns lots on the map

Vélopop'

The Vélopop’ network consists of 300 electrically-assisted bicycles and 29 stations spread across the Grand Avignon.
Map of station

Pay-as-you-go
> 0.50€ for the first 30 minutes
> Then 0.10€ per minute

24-hour access: 2€
> Unlimited number of journeys of less than 30 minutes
> Then 0.50€ per additional 30 minutes

Vélopop' Grand Avignon website (in french) / +33 (0)9 80 80 41 97

Useful links

Via Rhôna Lyon-Avignon
Bicycle parkings in Avignon