What is Avignon?
{{Infobox French commune |name = Avignon |commune status = [[Prefectures of France|Prefecture]] and [[Communes of France|commune]] |image = {{Photomontage|position=center | photo1a = Vue aérienne 2 JP Campomar.jpg | photo2a = Park beim Papstpalast in Avignon01 (cropped).jpg | photo2b = Avignon, Palais des Papes depuis Tour Philippe le Bel by JM Rosier (cropped).jpg | photo3a = Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms d'Avignon sous l'orage.jpg | photo3b = Avignon festival 2006 asobu popes palace.jpg | photo4a = Le Pont d'Avignon (cropped).jpg | size = 280 | spacing = 2 | color = | border = 0 | foot_montage = {{nobreak|From top: Skyline,}}<br>[[:fr:Rocher des Doms|Rocher des Doms]], [[Palais des Papes]],<br>[[Avignon Cathedral]], [[Festival d'Avignon]],<br>[[Pont Saint-Bénézet]] }} |image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Avignon (Vaucluse).svg |coordinates = {{coord|43.95|4.81|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |time zone = CET <small>(GMT +1)</small> |arrondissement = Avignon |canton = [[Canton of Avignon-1|Avignon-1]], [[Canton of Avignon-2|Avignon-2]], [[Canton of Avignon-3|Avignon-3]] |INSEE = 84007 |postal code = 84000 |mayor = Cécile Helle ([[Socialist Party (France)|PS]]) |term = 2014–2020 |intercommunality = [[Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Avignon|CA Grand Avignon]] |elevation m = 23 |elevation min m = 10 |elevation max m = 122 |area km2 = 64.78 |population = 92130 |population date = 2015 | footnotes = {{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site |child=yes |Official_name=Historic Centre of Avignon: [[Palais des Papes|Papal Palace]], Episcopal Ensemble and [[Pont Saint-Bénézet|Avignon Bridge]] |Criteria=Cultural: i, ii, iv |ID=228 |Year=1995 |Area=8.2 ha }} }} '''Avignon''' ({{lang-la|Avenio}}; {{lang-oc|Avinhon}}) is a [[Communes of France|commune]] in southeastern [[France]] in the [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Vaucluse]] on the l