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6 unusual facts about Cavaillon


Aicard

When Pope Urban II, the greatest of the Gregorian reformers after Gregory, travelled through Languedoc and Provence, visiting Montpellier, Nîmes, Saint-Gilles, Tarascon, Avignon, Aix, Cavaillon, and other cities, preaching the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095, he had to avoid Arles, where the deposed bishop was still in power.

Ancient Diocese of Cavaillon

Its see at Cavaillon, in southern France, is in the modern department of Vaucluse.

Boumedienne Allam

After his young years at Apt (1994–1996) and Cavaillon (1996–1997), he become famous as a RC Toulon player (1997–2000), where he won the Cup of France Frantz Reichel, in 1998.

Cavaillon Cathedral

Cavaillon Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Véran de Cavaillon) is a former Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the town of Cavaillon, Vaucluse.

Gui de Cavalhon

Gui was born at Cavaillon in the Valclusa, though there is no evidence of him residing there.

Raffaello Maffei

He was nuncio to France and, later, prefect of the building of St. Peter's (1507), regent of the penitentiaries, and Bishop, first, of Aquino (1516) and then of Cavaillon, he died on 23 June 1537.


Durance

In the Middle Ages, the county of Forcalquier stretched all along the Durance, from Cavaillon to La Roche-de-Rame, close to Embrun.

EV8 The Mediterranean Route

In doing so, it will pass through the cities of Argelès-sur-Mer, Port Barcarès, Port Leucate, Narbonne, Béziers, Agde, Sète, La Grande-Motte, Cavaillon, Apt, Forcalquier, and Nice.


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