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Come to Avignon

Avignon-Caumont Airport

www.avignon.aeroport.fr
Tel. + 33 (0)4 90 81 51 51

Marseille - Provence Airport

www.marseille.aeroport.fr
Tel. + 33 (0)4 42 14 14 14

Nîmes/Arles/Camargue Airport

www.aeroport-nimes.fr
Tel. + 33 (0)4 66 70 49 49

Railway information / SNCF

Information and reservations oui.sncf
Centre railway station +33 (0) 810 11 40 23 / http://sn.cf/avi
ter-sncf.com/paca ou gares-en-mouvement.com
La Virgule +33 (0) 810 11 40 23 ter-sncf.com/paca
TGV railway station 36 35 (0,34€ la min) / http://sn.cf/avi-tgv
gares-en-mouvement.com

Car + Train Avignon Sud Station

Avenue de Fontcouverte
Tel. +33 (0)4 90 27 81 70
Fax +33 (0)4 90 27 81 02

  • 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

Coach station

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

Orizo

tcra.fr / + 33 (0)4 32 74 18 32 
1,40€ one way ticket / Day Ticket 3,50€ /  Subscription
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.

TransVaucluse

maregionsud.fr / pacamobilite.fr or at the Avignon coach station
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.

Via Rhôna Lyon-Avignon : https://www.viarhona.com/viarhona-de-lyon-a-avignon

Accommodation

Finding somewhere to stay in Avignon can be a challenge, especially inside the city walls and between the 10th and 20th of July . Try and book as early as possible. 

You can find a lot of information on the Tourist Office website ot-avignon.fr or by contacting them via the homepage.

HOTELS, CAMPING SITES AND OTHER LODGINGS

The website of the Avignon Tourist Office (Office de Tourisme d'Avignon): www.ot-avignon.fr as well as the Official Tourism website of the Vaucluse district: provenceguide.com

FESTIVAL YOUTH CENTRE

The Association 'Centres de Jeunes et de Séjours du Festival d'Avignon', which brings together three founding partners: the Festival d'Avignon, the city of Avignon and the Ceméa, has been organising since 1959 stays of 5 to 9 days, for young people and adults, in groups or individually, during the Festival. All the stays, with full board, organised in schools inside and outside the city and supervised by teams of Ceméa activists, offer artistic initiation activities, convivial meetings with artists and performing arts professional as well as special admission conditions to the shows.


To find out more or to subscribe to one of the cultural programmes, 
CDJSFA
8 rue Frédéric Mistral 
84000 Avignon
+ 33 (0)4 90 87 18 60
cdjsf-avignon.fr