Pont Saint Benezet

The Pont Saint- Benezet, otherwise called the Pont d'Avignon, is a renowned medieval extension in the town of Avignon, in southern France. A bridge traversing the Rhône between Villeneuve-les-Avignon and Avignon was worked in the vicinity of 1177 and 1185. This early extension was obliterated forty years after the fact amid the Albigensian Crusade when Louis VIII of France laid attack to Avignon.

The scaffold was modified with 22 stone curves. It was expensive to keep up as the curves tended to crumple when the Rhone overwhelmed. In the long run amidst the seventeenth century the extension was deserted. The four surviving curves on the bank of the Rhone are accepted to have been worked in around 1345 by Pope Clement VI amid the Avignon Papacy. The bridge was the motivation for the tune Sur le pont d'Avignon and is viewed as a historic point of the city.

In 1995, the surviving curves of the extension, together with the Palais des Papes and Cathedrale Notre-Dame des Doms were delegated a World Heritage Site. The scaffold had awesome vital significance as when initially fabricated it was the main settled waterway going amongst Lyon and the Mediterranean Sea. It was likewise the main waterway going between the Comtat Venaissin, an enclave controlled by the Pope, and France legitimate under the expert of the lords of France.